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Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth. New York. 1922.

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Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης (Greek) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.)

Editions (6)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 907-1093 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 907 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 907 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 907 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 907 focus
ἢ μὴν ἔτι Ζεύς, καίπερ αυθάδης φρενῶν,
ἔσται ταπεινός, οἷον ἐξαρτύεται
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σὲ τὸν σοφιστήν, τὸν πικρῶς ὑπέρπικρον,
τὸν ἐξαμαρτόντ᾽ εἰς θεοὺς ἐφημέροις
πορόντα τιμάς, τὸν πυρὸς κλέπτην λέγω·
πατὴρ ἄνωγέ σ᾽ οὖστινας κομπεῖς γάμους
αὐδῶν πρὸς ὧν τ᾽ ἐκεῖνος ἐκπίπτει κράτους.
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καὶ ταῦτα μέντοι μηδὲν αἰνικτηρίως,
ἀλλ᾽ αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστα φράζε, μηδέ μοι διπλᾶς
ὁδούς, Προμηθεῦ, προσβάλης· ὁρᾷς δ᾽ ὅτι
Ζεὺς τοῖς τοιούτοις οὐχὶ μαλθακίζεται.
τοιοῖσδε μέντοι καὶ πρὶν αὐθαδίσμασιν
ἐς τάσδε σαυτὸν πημονὰς καθώρμισας.
λέγων ἔοικα πολλὰ καὶ μάτην ἐρεῖν·
τέγγῃ γὰρ οὐδὲν οὐδὲ μαλθάσσῃ λιταῖς
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ἐμαῖς· δακὼν δὲ στόμιον ὡς νεοζυγής
πῶλος βιάζῃ καὶ πρὸς ἡνίας μάχῃ·
ἀτὰρ σφοδρύνῃ γ᾽ ἀσθενεῖ σοφίσματι·
αὐθαδία γὰρ τῷ φρονοῦντι μὴ καλῶς
αὐτὴ καθ᾽ αὑτὴν οὐδενὸς μεῖζον σθένει.
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εἰδότι τοί μοι τάσδ᾽ ἀγγελίας
ὅδ᾽ ἐθώυξεν, πάσχειν δὲ κακῶς
ἐχθρὸν ὑπ᾽ ἐχθρῶν οὐδὲν ἀεικές.
πρὸς ταῦτ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ ῥιπτέσθω μὲν
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πυρὸς ἀμφήκης βόστρυχος, αἰθὴρ δ᾽
ἐρεθιζέσθω βροντῇ σφακέλῳ τ᾽
ἀγρίων ἀνέμων· χθόνα δ᾽ ἐκ πυθμένων
αὐταῖς ῥίζαις πνεῦμα κραδαίνοι,
κῦμα δὲ πόντου τραχεῖ ῥοθίῳ
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συγχώσειεν
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων ἄστρων διόδους,
ἔς τε κελαινὸν Τάρταρον ἄρδην
ῥίψειε δέμας τουμὸν ἀνάγκης
στερραῖς δίναις·
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πάντως ἐμέ γ᾽ οὐ θανατώσει.
καὶ μὴν ἔργῳ κοὐκέτι μύθῳ
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 907 focus
Translations (8)
Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 907-1090 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 907 focus
Yet truly shall Jove, albeit he is self-willed in his temper, be lowly, in such
wedlock is he prepared to wed, as shall hurl him out of his sovereignty and off his throne a forgotten thing; and the curse of his father Saturn shall then at length find entire consummation, which he imprecated when he was deposed from his ancient throne. From disasters such as these there is no one of the gods beside myself that can clearly disclose to him a way of escape. I know this, and by what means. Wherefore let him rest on in his presumption, putting confidence in his thunders aloft, brandishing in his hand a fire-breathing bolt. For not one jot shall these suffice to save him from falling dishonoured in a downfall beyond endurance; such an antagonist is he now with his own hands preparing against himself, a portent that shall baffle all resistance; who shall invent a flame more potent than the lightning, and a mighty din that shall surpass the thunder; and shall shiver the ocean trident, that earth-convulsing pest, the spear of Neptune. And when he bath stumbled upon this mischief, he shall be taught how great is the difference between sovereignty and slavery.
Thee, the contriver, thee full of gall and bitterness, who sinned against the gods by bestowing their honours on creatures of a day, the thief of fire, I address. The Sire commands thee to divulge of what nuptials it is that thou art vaunting, by means of which he is to be put down from his power. And these things, moreover, without any kind of mystery, but each exactly as it is, do thou tell out; and entail not upon me, Prometheus, a double journey; and thou perceivest that by such conduct Jove is not softened.
Yet truly 'twas by such self-will even before now that thou didst bring thyself to such a calamitous mooring.
With all that I have said I seem to be speaking to no purpose : for not one whit art thou melted or softened in thy heart by entreaties, but art champing the bit like a colt fresh yoked, and struggling against the reins. But on the strength of an impotent scheme art thou thus violent; for obstinacy in one not soundly wise, itself by itself availeth less than nothing. And mark, if thou art not persuaded by my words, what a tempest and three-fold surge of ills, from which there is no escape, will come upon thee. For in the first place the Sire will shiver this craggy cleft with thunder and the blaze of his bolt, and will overwhelm thy body, and a clasping arm of rock shall bear thee up. And after thou shalt have passed through to its close a long space of time, thou shalt come back into the light! and a winged hound of Jupiter, a blood-thirsting eagle, shall ravenously mangle thy huge lacerated frame, stealing upon thee an unbidden guest, and [tarrying] all the livelong day, and shalt banquet his fill on the black viands
of thy liver. To such labours look thou for no termination, until some god shall appear as a substitute in thy pangs, and shall be willing to go both to gloomy Hades, and to the murky depths around Tartarus. Wherefore advise thee, since this is no fictitious vaunt, but uttered in great earnestness; for the divine mouth knows not how to utter falsehood, but will bring every word to pass. But do thou look around and reflect, and never for a moment deem pertinacity better than discretion.
To me already well aware of it hath this fellow urged his message; but for a foe to suffer horribly at the hands of , foes is no indignity. Wherefore let the doubly-pointed wreath of his fire be hurled at me, and aether be torn piecemeal by thunder, and spasm of savage blasts; and let the wind rock earth from her base, roots and all, and with stormy surge mingle in rough tide the billow of the deep and the paths of the stars ;and fling my body into black Tartarus, with a whirl, in the stern eddies of necessity. Yet by no possible means shall he visit me with death.
And verily in deed and no longer in word doth the earth heave, and the roaring echo of thunder rolls bellowing by us; and deep blazing wreaths of lightning are glaring, and hurricanes whirl the dust; and blasts of all the winds are leaping forth, shewing one against the other a strife of conflict gusts ; and the firmament is embroiled with the deep
. Such is this onslaught that is clearly coming upon me from Jove, a cause for terror. O dread majesty of my mother Earth, O aether that diffusest thy common light, thou beholdest the wrongs I suffer.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 907 focus
j'en réponds, où Zeus, pour opiniâtre que soit son cœur, sera tout humble, car l'hymen auquel il s'apprête le jettera à bas de son pouvoir
et de son trône, anéanti. Elle sera dès lors de tout point accomplie, la malédiction dont l'a maudit Cronos, son père, le jour où il tomba de son trône antique. Et le moyen d'éloigner tels revers, nul dieu, si ce n'est moi, ne le lui saurait révéler clairement. Seul, je sais l'avenir et
comment il se peut conjurer. Après cela, qu'il trône donc sans crainte, se fiant au fracas dont il emplit les airs, agitant dans ses mains le trait embrasé : nul secours ne l'empêchera de choir ignominieusement d'une chute intolérable
— si fort est l'adversaire qu'à cette heure il se prépare à lui-même, être prodigieux avec qui la lutte est ardue, inventeur d'un feu plus puissant que la foudre, d'un fracas formidable à couvrir le tonnerre ; par qui même le fléau marin
qui ébranle la terre, le trident, arme de Poséidon, doit voler en éclats 1 . Le jour où il butera contre ce malheur, il apprendra quelle distance sépare « régner » de « servir ».
Toi — oui, toi, le malin, le hargneux entre les
hargneux, l'offenseur des dieux, qui as aux éphémères livré leurs privilèges, le voleur du feu — écoute ! Mon père t'ordonne de parler : quel est cet hymen dont tu fais un épouvantail ? et par qui doit-il être jeté à bas de son pou-
voir ? Cette fois, plus d'énigmes ! appelle chaque chose par son nom. Et ne m'inflige pas un second voyage, Prométhée : tu le vois, ce n'est pas ainsi qu'on adoucit Zeus.
Ce sont pourtant ces façons obstinées d'an-
tan qui t'ont conduit à ce mouillage de douleurs.
S'en tenir à parler, serait, je crois, parler longuement pour rien. Pas un instant tu n'es touché ni adouci par des prières venues de moi. Mordant le frein
au contraire, comme un poulain novice au joug, tu résistes, tu te bats contre les rênes. Mais ta rage se fie à une impuissante ruse. L'opiniâtreté, chez qui raisonne mal, seule, peut moins que rien. Considère donc, si mes raisons ne
savent te convaincre, quel ouragan, quelle triple lame de maux va t'assaillir, inévitable 5 . Cette âpre cime d'abord, mon père, avec son tonnerre et la flamme de sa foudre, la fera voler en éclats ; ton corps enfoui n'aura plus d'autre lit que
l'étreinte du roc ; et une longue durée de jours s'achèvera, avant que tu reviennes à la lumière. Mais alors le chien ailé de Zeus, l'aigle fauve, taillant férocement ton corps, n'en
Je connaissais le message dont il me vient
harceler. Mais être traité en ennemi par des ennemis n'a rien d'infamant. Allons ! que la tresse de feu à double pointe 8 soit donc lâchée sur moi, l'éther ébranlé par la
foudre et la fureur convulsive des vents sauvages ; que leur souffle, secouant la terre, l'arrache avec ses racines à ses fondements ; que la houle des mers, d'un flux hurlant et
rude, aille effacer au firmament les routes où croisent les astres ; puis que, pour en finir, il me jette donc au ténébreux Tartare 9 , dans les tourbillons d'une impitoyable
et non plus des mots : la terre vacille ; dans ses profondeurs, en même temps,
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 907 focus
Thou doeſt thy meſſage proudly, in high terms,
Becoming well the ſervant of ſuch lords.
Your youthful pow'r is new; yet vainly deem ye
Your highrais'd tow'rs, impregnable to pain:
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Have I not ſeen two ſovereigns m
of the ſky
Sink from their glorious ſtate? And I ſhall ſee
A third, this preſent lord, with ſudden ruin
Diſhonorably fall. What, ſeem I now
To dread, to tremble at these newrais'd gods?
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That never ſhall their force extort from me.
Hence then, the way thou cameſt return with ſpeed:
Thy vain inquiries get no other anſwer.
Such inſolence before, ſo firey fierce,
Drew on thy head this dreadful puniſhment.
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I ſee thou art implacable, unſoften'd
By all the mild intreaties I can urge;
But like a young ſteed rein'd, that proudly ſtruggles,
And champs his iron curb, thy haughty ſoul
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Abates not of its unavailing fierceness.
But pride, diſdaining to be rul'd by reaſon,
Sinks weak and valueleſs.
But mark me well,
If not obedient to my words, a ſtorm,
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A firey and inevitable deluge
Shall burſt in threefold vengeance on thy head.
First, his fierce thunder wing'd with lightning flames
Shall rend this rugged rock, and cover thee
With hideous ruin:
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long time ſhalt thou lie
Astonied in its rifted ſides, till drag'd
Again to light;
then ſhall the bird of Jove,
The rav'ning eagle, lur'd with ſcent of blood,
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Mangle thy body, and each day returning,
An uninvited gueſt, plunge his fell beak,
And feaſt and riot on thy black'ning liver.
Expect no pauſe, no reſpite, till ſome god
Comes to relieve thy pains, willing to paſs
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The dreary realms of everduring night, o
The dark deſcent of Tartarus profound.
All this I knew e'er he declar'd his meſſage.
That enemy from enemy ſhould ſuffer
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Extreme indignity is nothing ſtrange.
Let him then work his horrible pleaſure on me;
Wreath his black curling flames, tempeſt the air
With vollied thunders and wild warring winds,
Rend from its roots the firm earth's ſolid baſe,
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Heave from the roaring main its boiſterous waves,
And daſh them to the ſtars; me let him hurl,
Caught in the firey tempeſt, to the gloom
Of deepest Tartarus; not all his pow'r
Can quench th' ætherial breath of life in me.
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He ſables not; I feel in very deed
The firm earth rock; the thunder's deep'ning roar
Rolls with redoubled rage; the bick'ring flames
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Flaſh thick;
the eddying ſands are whirl'd on high;
In dreadful oppoſition the wild winds
Rend the vex'd air; the boiſterous billows riſe
Confounding ſea and ſky;
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th' impetuous ſtorm
Rolls all its terrible fury on my head.
Seeſt thou this, aweful Themis; and thou, Æther,
Thro' whoſe pure azure floats the general ſtream
Of liquid light, ſee you what wrongs I ſuffer!
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Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 907 focus
Sí, sebben tracotante, un giorno Giove
tapino esser dovrà: tai nozze affretta,
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che dal dominio, che dal soglio giú
l'abbatteranno;
e sparirà nel nulla.
L'imprecazione allor del vecchio Crono
sarà compiuta interamente, ch'egli
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scagliò, piombando dall'antico trono.
Di tal rovina niun potria dei Numi
chiaro mostrargli, se non io, lo scampo.
Io questo, e il modo so. Pertanto ei segga
pieno di fede negli aerei bómbiti,
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squassando in pugno il suo dardo di fiamma:
impedir non potrà che senza onore
in rovina d'obbrobrio egli giú piombi.
Tale un campione, a sé stesso egli stesso,
ora apparecchia, insuperabil mostro:
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questi una fiamma troverà che arda
A te, gran saggio, a te che acerbo sei
piú che ogni acerbo, che in oltraggio ai Numi
i loro onori compartisti agli uomini,
a te favello, involator del fuoco.
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Ordina il padre che tu dica quali
nozze son queste ond'ei cadrà dal soglio.
Né parlar con enigmi: esponi il tutto
punto per punto; e vedi ch'io non debba
rifar la strada, Prometèo.
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Lo sai,
non molciscono ambagi il cuor di Giove.
Vedi che già con arroganze simili
facesti approdo a tal porto di pene.
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Se piú dicessi, invano io parlerei:
tu non ti plachi alle preghiere mie,
tu non t'intenerisci. E il freno mordi,
come puledro nuovo al giogo, e imprechi
e repugni alle briglie.
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E pure, inferma
è la saggezza onde t'esalti: audacia
per chi non ha saggezza, è men che nulla
di per sé stessa.
Or vedi, se convincerti
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rifiuti ai detti miei, quale procella,
qual maroso di mali ineluttabili
piomberà sopra te.
Prima, quest'aspra
rupe, col fuoco e col celeste folgore
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il padre squarcerà, vi asconderà
le membra tue, ché una petrosa branca
le stringa.
Dopo lungo ordine d'anni,
di nuovo a luce tornerai. Ma il cane
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di Giove alato, l'aquila cruenta,
voracemente il corpo a gran brandelli
da mane a sera ti dilanierà,
senza invito rependo, del tuo fegato
a banchettar l'epula negra.
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E termine
di tale strazio alcuno non attendere,
se alcun dei Numi non si mostri e assuma
le pene tue, che al cieco Ade, e del Tartaro
nei tenebrosi abissi elegga scendere.
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Dunque risolvi. Ché non è già questa
vana millanteria, ma vero espresso.
Ché mentire non sa di Giove il labbro,
ma ciò ch'ei dice, ei compie. Or tu considera,
I messaggi ch'egli or mi proclama
noti m'erano già: né le offese
da nemico a nemico fan macchia.
Su me dunque dal cielo s'abbatta
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la bisulca cesarie di fuoco,
l'etra tutto sconquassino i tuoni,
lo sfacelo di venti selvaggi;
crolli un alito immane la terra
da le basi con l'ime radici,
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ed i flutti del mare sparpagli
con aspro frastuono
per gli uranî sentieri degli astri;
e giú scagli nel Tartaro negro,
le mie membra, nel vortice orrendo
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del Fato.
Ma invano
cercherebbe di darmi la morte.
Ecco i fatti, e non piú le parole.
La terra sussulta,
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mugghia l'eco del tuono profonda,
tutte fiamma le spire lampeggiano
delle folgori, a vortici va
roteando la polvere, dànzano,
l'un con l'altro azzuffandosi i soffî,
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tutti i venti: confusi con l'ètere
si sconvolgono i flutti del mare.
Tanta furia scoscende da Giove
contro me, perché tremi il mio cuore.
Di mia madre o tu fregio, o tu ètere,
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tu che a tutti comparti la luce,
l'ingiustizia ch'io soffro mirate !
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 907 focus
Certè tamen Iupiter, quamvis sit superbus, mens
Erit humilis, tale optabit
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Matrimonium parare, quod ipsum tyrannico
Solio imprôvidum eijciet.
patris verò execratio
Saturni tunc perficietur omnino,
Quam imprecatus est cadens diuturnis folijs.
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Talium laborum eversionem nullus deorum
Poterit, me excepto, manifestè demonstrare.
Ego hæc noui, & quomodo ad hæc nunc
Fidens sedeat sublimibus fragoribus
Confisus, quatiens manibus igniuomum telum:
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Nihil illum hæc iuvabunt, quin
Cadat turpiter casu non tolerando.
Talem aduersarium parat nunc
Ipse sibi inexpugnabile monstrum,
Qui flammam fulmine potiorem inveniet,
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Te acerbe super acerbum impostorem
In deos peccantem, mortalibus
Præbentem honores, furem ignis dico,
Pater iussit, quas iactitas nuptias,
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Proloqui, à quibus ipse eijcietur imperio:
Et hæc quidem non obscurè,
Sed inconsulto dic: neq; mihi duplâs
Talibus quidem prius contumacijs,
Te ipsum in tales dolores coniecisti,
Dicens visus sum multa frustra dicere,
Neq; molliris, neq; mitigaris precibus
Meis, mordens frenum tanquam recenter coniugatus
Pullus vim infers, contraq; habenas pugnas,
Vehemensq; es consilio infirmo,
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Contumacia ei, qui non sapit bene,
Ipsa per se nihil potest.
Vide si non meis verbis persuadearis,
Quanta in te tempestas, & malorum procella
Veniet inevitabilis. primò quidem asperam
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Convallem tonitru & fulmineâ flammâ
Pater dissipabit, in hacq; occultabit corpus
Tuum, cauata petra feriet te:
Ibi longum tempus perficiens,
Rursus in lucem venies:
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Iouis verò
Alatus canis cruenta aquila, voraciter
Lacerabit corporis magnam fissuram,
Non vocatâ veniens, vorans quotidie
Nigrum hepar conuiuabitur.
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Talis laboris finem ne expecta,
Donec aliquis deorum successor tuorum laborum
Apparuerit, volueritq; tenebrosum ire in
Orcum, obscurumq; antrum tartari.
Ad hæc consulta: nam non ficta est
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Hæc iactantia, sed valdè vera,
Mentiri nescit os
Iouis: sed quæ dicit, perficit.
tu verò
Vide, & curam adhibe, neq; contumaciam
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Mihi scienti hoc nuncium
Iste vociferatus est. affici malis
Inimicum ab inimicis non est molestum.
Ad hæc mihi proijciatur
Ignis anceps fax, æther
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Commoueatur tonitru, inflammationeq;
Sæuorum ventorum, terram verò funditus
Ex ipsis radicibus quatiat ventus,
Fluctus verò maris violenti impetu sepeliat me,
Et in solum cœlestium astrorum,
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Aut in nigrum tartarum penitus
Proijciat corpus meum necessitatis
Grauibus turbinibus, omnino me non interficiet.
Et tamen opere, & no amplius sermone, terra
Fremens sonus resonat
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Tonitru, faces splendidunt
Fulminis ignitæ, & turbines puluerem
Torquent, insultant ventorum
Spiritus omnium inter se,
Contrarij seditionem excitant,
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Mixtus est aer mari.
Talis impetus à Iove mihi
Contingens, mouet metum manifestè,
O' matris mei cultus, ô omnibus
Æther commune lumen voluens,
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Vides me quàm iniusta patior.
PROMETHEI FINIS.
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 907 focus
And yet shall Zeus, for all his stubborn pride,
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Be brought to low estate! aha, he schemes
Such wedlock as shall bring his doom on him,
Flung from his kingship to oblivion's lap!
Ay, then the curse his father Cronos spake
As he fell helpless from his agelong throne,
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Shall be fulfilled unto the utterance!
No god but I can manifest to him
A rescue from such ruin as impends—
I know it, I, and how it may be foiled.
Go to, then, let him sit and blindly trust
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His skyey rumblings, for security,
And wave his levin with its blast of flame!
All will avail him not, nor bar his fall
Down to dishonour vile, intolerable—
So strong a wrestler is he moulding now
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To his own proper downfall—yea, a shape
Portentous and unconquerably huge,
Who truly shall reveal a flame more strong
Than is the lightning, and a crash of sound
More loud than thunder, and shall dash to nought
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Poseidon's trident-spear, the ocean-bane
That makes the firm earth quiver. Let Zeus strike
Once on this rock, he speedily shall learn
How far the fall from power to slavery!
Thou, double-dyed in gall of bitterness,
Trickster and sinner against gods, by giving
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The stolen fire to perishable men!
Attend—the Sire supreme doth bid thee tell
What is the wedlock which thou vauntest now,
Whereby he falleth from supremacy?
Speak forth the whole, make all thine utterance clear,
1070
Have done with words inscrutable, nor cause
To me, Prometheus! any further toil
Or twofold journeying. Go to—thou seëst
Zeus doth not soften at such words as thine!
Think—it was such audacities of will
That drove thee erst to anchorage in woe!
So, I shall speak, whate'er I speak, in vain!
No prayer can melt or soften thy resolve;
1135
But, as a colt new-harnessed champs the bit,
Thou strivest and art restive to the rein.
But all too feeble is the stratagem
In which thou art so confident: for know
That strong self-will is weak and less than nought
1140
In one more proud than wise. Bethink thee now—
If these my words thou shouldest disregard—
What storm, what might as of a great third wave
Shall dash thy doom upon thee, past escape!
First shall the Sire, with thunder and the flame
1145
Of lightning, rend the crags of this ravine,
And in the shattered mass o'erwhelm thy form,
Immured and morticed in a clasping rock.
Thence, after age on age of durance done,
Back to the daylight shalt thou come, and there
1150
The eagle-hound of Zeus, red-ravening, fell
With greed, shall tatter piecemeal all thy flesh
To shreds and ragged vestiges of form—
Yea, an unbidden guest, a day-long bane,
That feeds, and feeds—yea, he shall gorge his fill
1155
On blackened fragments, from thy vitals gnawed.
Look for no respite from that agony
Until some other deity be found,
Ready to bear for thee the brunt of doom,
Choosing to pass into the lampless world
1160
Of Hades and the murky depths of hell.
Hereat, advise thee! 'tis no feignèd threat
Whereof I warn thee, but an o'er-true tale.
The lips of Zeus know nought of lying speech,
But wreak in action all their words foretell.
1165
Therefore do thou look warily, and deem
Prudence a better saviour than self-will.
All, all I knew, whatever his tongue
In idle arrogance hath flung.
'Tis the world's way, the common lot—
Foe tortures foe and pities not.
1175
Therefore I challenge him to dash
His bolt on me, his zigzag flash
Of piercing, rending flame!
Now be the welkin stirred amain
With thunder-peal and hurricane,
1180
And let the wild winds now displace
From its firm poise and rooted base
The stubborn earthly frame!
The raging sea with stormy surge
Rise up and ravin and submerge
1185
Each high star-trodden way!
Me let him lift and dash to gloom
Of nether hell, in whirls of doom!
Yet—do he what extremes he may—
He cannot crush my life away!
1190
Hark! for no more in empty word,
1220
But in sheer sooth, the world is stirred!
The massy earth doth heave and sway,
And thro' their dark and secret way
The cavern'd thunders boom!
See, how they gleam athwart the sky,
1225
The lightnings, through the gloom!
And whirlwinds roll the dust on high,
And right and left the storm-clouds leap
To battle in the skyey deep,
In wildest uproar unconfined,
1230
An universe of warring wind!
And falling sky and heaving sea
Are blent in one! on me, on me,
Nearer and ever yet more near,
Flaunting its pageantry of fear,
1235
Drives down in might its destined road
The tempest of the wrath of God!
O holy Earth, O mother mine!
O Sky, that biddest speed along
Thy vault the common Light divine,—
1240
Be witness of my wrong!
[ The rocks are rent with fire and earthquake, and fall, burying Prometheus in the ruins.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 907 focus
Wohl wird sich Zeus trok seines stolzen Sinnes noch
Demüthig beugen, weil er einen Ehebund
Zu schließen sich bereitet, der in Dunkel ihn
Vom Königsthrone niederstürzt. Dann wird gewiß
Der Fluch des Vaters Kronos ganz erfüllt an ihm,
905
Den dieser einst vom alten Throne stürzend sprach.
Wie solches Unheil abzuwenden sei, vermag
Der Götter keiner, außer mir, ihm kundzuthun.
Ich weiß es, weiß die Mittel. Trokig mag er denn
Dort oben thronen, auf den hohen Donner stolz,
910
Umsprüht von Bligen, die sein Arm glutathmend schwingt!
Denn nimmer rettet dieses ihn, daß nicht hinab
Er stürzte schmachvoll unerträglich schweren Sturz.
Solch einen Ringer rüstet er nun gegen sich
Selbst selber aus, ein Wunder unbezwungner Kraft,
915
Der Wetterflammen, mächt'ger als der Blik, ersinnt
Und Tosen, lauter dröhnend als des Donners Hall,
Der auch des Oceanes erderschütterndes
Schreckniß, Poseidons dreigezackten Speer, zerschellt.
Kommt dieses Unheil über ihn, dann lernt er wohl,
920
Wie gar verschieden Sclaverei von Herrschen ist.
Dich Ueberklugen, dich in Herbheit überherb,
Dich Frevler an den Göttern, der dem Tagsgeschlecht
Das Schönste gab, des Feuers Räuber, red' ich an.
940
Den Bund, von dem du prahltest, heißt der Vater dich
Kundthun, der ihn vom Königsthrone stürzen soll.
Und nicht in Räthsel hülle dich, nein, rede klar
Und unverholen, daß du mich nicht nöthigest,
Zweimal, Prometheus, herzugeh'n. Wohl siehst du ja,
945
Daß Zeus durch solche Dinge nicht geschmeidig wird.
Mit solchem Starrsinn hast du dich auch früher schon
In diesen Hafen deiner Noth hineingesteu'rt.
Ich rede viel und rede, scheint es, ganz umsonst.
Denn meine Bitten rühren nicht, erweichen nicht
Dein Herz; den Zaum zerknirschend, gleich dem jungen Roß,
Und wild dich bäumend, bietest du dem Zügel Trok.
Indef in machtlos eitlem Wahn erhebst du dich.
1005
Denn Troy, mit klugem Sinne nicht gepaart, vermag
Niemals zu siegen, auf sich selbst allein gestellt.
Bedenke, wenn du meinen Rath achtlos verschmähst,
Welch Ungewitter, welches Weh's graunvolle Flut
Dich unentfliehbar fassen wird. Zeus wird zuerst
1010
Mit Donnerschlägen und des Wetterstrahles Keil
Den schroffen Abhang splittern hier, und deinen Leib
In Nacht begraben, dichtumrankt vom Felsenarm.
Und hast du langer Zeiten Lauf vollendet dort,
So steigst du wieder an das Licht. Dann wird des Zeus
1015
Beschwingter Hund, sein blutigrother Adler, dir
Giervoll zerfleischen deines Leibs ein großes Stück,
Ein Gast, der ungeladen kommt an jedem Tag,
Mit deiner Leber schwarzem Raub sich sättigend.
Und hoffe nicht, das Ende solcher Pein zu schau'n,
1020
Bevor ein Gott als Stellvertreter deiner Qual
Erscheint, bereit, in Hades' düstres Haus hinab
Zu geh'n, in sonnenlose Nacht des Tartaros.
Nun magst du dich entschließen; nicht ersonnen ja
War diese Drohung, sondern sehr im Ernst gemeint;
1025
Denn Nichts von Lügenreden weiß der Mund des Zeus;
Nein, jedes seiner Worte wird zur That. So sieh
Umher und überlege dir's, und achte nie
Den kecken Troß für besser als Besonnenheit.
Wohl wußt' ich zuvor um die Kunden bereits,
Die dieser enthüllt: doch erduldet der Feind
1035
Unbilden vom Feind, so beschimpft es ihn nicht.
So schmettre herab zweizackig auf mich
Der geschlängelte Bliz, und es zittre die Luft
Von des Donners Getos' und der zuckenden Wuth
Des empörten Orkans, und der Erd' Abgrund
1040
Mit den Wurzeln zugleich durchschütt're der Sturm!
Und das wogende Meer, hoch schlag' es empor
In tobendem Schwall, wo die himmlischen Stern'
Hinwandeln die Bahn; in die finstere Kluft,
In den Tartaros, stürze hinab mein Leib,
1045
Von des Schicksals wirbelndem Strudel entrafft:
Doch mich wird er nimmer vernichten!
Schon wird es zur That, es erfüllt sich das Wort:
Auf schüttert der Grund,
1075
Und der Donner in dumpf nachhallendem Schlag
Brüllt laut, und es zuckt in geschlängelten Loh'n
Aufflammend der Blik; hoch jagen den Staub
Sturmwirbel empor, und alle zumal
Wild jagen die Wind', in feindlichem Hauch
1080
Mit des Aufruhrs Wuth auf einander gestürzt;
Und der Aether vermählt sich der wogenden See.
So stürzt das Gericht, von Kronion gesandt,
Mich schreckend mit Grau'n, sichtbar auf mich.
O heilige Mutter, o Aether, du,
1085
Der das Licht hinrollt, das Alles durchdringt,
Ihr seht, was ich dulde mit Unrecht!
(Prometheus sinkt mit dem Felsen in den Abgrund.)

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Prometheus Bound.) focus

907. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1026

ἄπορα: M. G. Vit. Lips. Ald. Turn.
εἰς άπορα
multi codices et Rob.

908. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1027

οὐδ᾽ ἔχω τίς ἂν γενοίμαν:
οὐδ᾽ ἔτις ἂν γένοιμ' ἂν
, sed ad
ἔτις
superscripto
χω
, Vit.
γενοίμην
G. Lips. Ald.

910. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1028

ὅπᾳ: superscripto
ου
Vit. et legitur
ὅπου
in Par. E. Vind. 2. 4.

911. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1029

αὐθάδης φρενῶν: M. a pr. manu (recentior
δη
et
go
supra adscripsit) et Vit. Par, B. Mosc. 1. Ald. et ante correctionem G.
αυθά- δη φρενών
Cantabr. 2. superscripto
φρονῶν
, et Turn.
αυθάδη φρονῶν
Lips. Par. C. E. F. Ven. 3. et e correctione G.
γρ. αυθάδη φρονῶν
Par. B. Id Porsonus alique tenuerunt: sed aperte praestat
αυθάδης φρενών
.

912. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1030

ταπεινός, οἷον:
ταπενὸς οἷον
Lips.
ταπεινὸς. γὰρ οἷον
Vit. quod
γὰρ
ortum videtur ex male intellecto
T
. Nam Rob. pro ceterorum librorum scriptura, quae est
olov
, habet
toñor
. In
olov
ultimam litteram a rec. manu habet M. Prima fortasse scripserat
olos
.

914. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1031

θρόνων τ' ἄϊστον:
θρόνων άϊστον
M. Rob.
θρόνων τ' αΐστων
, sed a pr. manu mutatum in
ἄΐστον
, Vit.
πατρὸς δ᾽ ἀρὰ: (
uga
Ald.) M. G. Lips. Ox. Par. E. L. Ven. 1. 2. Bess. Vindobonenses et Ald.
πατρὸς ἀρὰ
Vit. Rob.
πατρὸς δ' οὐ
alii, ut videtur, codices et Turn. ac reliquae edd.

915. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1032

Κρόνου: omittit Lips.
τότ': ultima littera a rec. manu M. in quo prius fuisse videtur
τόδ'
, ut est in Cantabr. 2.
πότ'
Рar. C.

916. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1033

ἐκπίτνων: Vit. Colb. 2. et a pr. manu M.
ἐκπιτνῶν
M. a rec. manu et ceteri.
δηναιῶν:
δηναιῶν
, superscripto a rec. manu
ων
, M.

917. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1034

τοιῶνδε:
τοιῶνδε
, superscripto a rec. manu
@
, M.

919. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1035

ἐγὼ τάδ᾽ οἶδα:
ἐγὼ δὲ τάδ᾽ οἶδα
Vit.

920. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1036

καθήσθω:
καθήστω
Ven. 3. et e correctione, quum prius fuisset
κα- στω
, Vit. sed in scholio Vit.
καθήσθω
legitur.
καθείσθω
Lips. Ald. Rob.
καθίσθω
Par. E.
πεδαρσίοις κτύποις: Pro
κτύποις
scholiastes
τόποις
. In M. super
πεδαρσίοις
adscripta a rec. manu glossa
ὑψηλοῖς τόποις
.

921. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1037

πιστός:
πιστός
, superscripto a sec. manu
ό
, M. Apud scholiastam etiam
αὐστός
invenitur.
τινάσσων χειρὶ πυρπνόον βέλος:
τινάσσων τ᾽ ἐν χεροῖν πύρπνουν β.
Μ.
τινάσσων ταῖν χεροῖν πυρπνόον β.
G.
τινάσων (τινάσσων Turn.) τ' ἐν χεροῖν πυρπνόον β.
Ald. Turn.
τινάσσων τ᾽ ἐν χεροῖν πυρίπνουν β.
Rob. et Lips. in quo prius
ἐν χερσὶν
fuerat.
τινάσσων τ᾽ ἐν χερσὶ πυρίπνουν β.
Vit.
ἐν χερσὶ πυρίπνουν
Par. D.
ἐν χερὶ πυρίπνουν
Par. A.
χερσὶ
Arund.
χερ- oin
Colb. 1. Cantabr. 1.
χερσι
Colb. 2.
πυρπνουν
Рar. B.
πυριπνουν
Vind. 2. 4.
πυρπνοον
Vind. 1. 3. nisi scriptum est
πυρπρόον
, ut in Вess.
πυρὶ πνο
Par. E. Porsonus ad Eur. Hec. v. 1117. hoc versu utens scripsit
τινάσσων χειρὶ πυρπνόον βέλος
, recte, ut videtur, quum formam non contractam praetulerint tragici, de qua re dixit Blomfieldius, pravo ille accentu scribens
πύρπνοον
.

922. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1038

οὐδὲν γὰρ αὐτῷ:
οὐ γὰρ αὐτῷ
Lips.
τὸ μὴ οὐ: M. Ald. Rob. Turn.
μὴ οὖν
affertur ex Par. E. Omittunt
οὐ
, quod in Vit. in principio sequentis versus additum est Lips. Arund. Cantabr. 1. Colb. 2. Mosc. 1. Par. L. N. Ven. 2. Vind. 1. 3. Si omittitur,
ne
significatur; si additur,
quo minus
: quorum prius rem certo eventuram indicat. Quare
un
sine
ou
rectius dicitur in iis rebus, quae iam comprobatae sunt eventu, ut in Agam. v. 1128.
ἄκος δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐπήρκε σαν, τὸ μὴ πόλιν μὲν ὥσπερ οὖν ἔχει παθεῖν
. Itaque hoc loco aptius videtur
un ov
, praesertim quum vitaverit malum illud Iuppiter.

924. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1039

νῦν παρασκευάζεται:
παρασκευάζεται νῦν
G. Mosc. 2. Bess. Ald. Rob.

925. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1040

ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸς αὑτῷ: M. sed spiritu utriusque pronominis a sec. manu addito, et G.
ἐπ' αὐτὸς αὐτῷ
Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 1. Ald.
αὐτὸς ἐπ' αὐτῷ
Rob.
αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ
Mosc. 1. et fortasse Par. K. ex quo
ἑαυ- τῷ
affertur.

926. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1041

κεραυνοῦ:
κεραυνῶν
ante correctionem Lips.
κρείσσον: Lips. et ante rec. manus correctionem M.
εὑρήσει:
εὑρήσοι
, littera
ι
a sec. manu, M. idemque superscriptum in Colb. 2.

927. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1042

βροντῆς θ':
βροντῆς
Lips. Cantabr. 1. Ceteri omnes
βροντῆς
, quod Blomfieldius temere in
βροντὰς
mutavit, non cogitans verba comparationem significantia sic ut nomina comparativa construi. Vide Heindorfium ad Plat. Gorg. §. 68. p. 97. Pro vulgato
βροντῆς θ'
Vit.
βροντῆς δ'
.
ὑπερβάλλοντα: Cantabr. 1. et ante sec. manus correctionem M.

928. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1043

τινάκτειραν: Non aptum est, quod Elmsleium coniecisse Blomfieldius dicit,
θαλασσίαν δέ
.
τιναχτειρα
sine accentu Lips.

929. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1044

αἰχμὴν τὴν Ποσειδῶνος:
αἰχμήτην
pro
αἰχμὴν τὴν
G.
αἰχμὴν τοῦ
Rob.
πόσε δῶνος
Lips.

930. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1045

κακῷ:
κακῶν
M. ante recentioris manus correctionem et Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. K. Ven. 2. Vind. 1. 3.
τῷ κακῶν
Par. B.

931. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1046

ὅσον:
ὅσσον
Μ. Rob.

932. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1047

σύ θην:
σύ θὴ
a pr. manu M. Recentior
ν
et gravem litterae
η
accentum superscripsit.
σὺ δὴ
G. Vit. Lips. edd. et fortasse reliqui libri omnes. Correxit accentum Dindorfius: nam grammatici
θὴν
encliticis adnumerant.
ταῦτ᾽ ἐπιγλωσσᾷ:
ταῦτ᾽ ἐπιγλωσσᾶι
, sed
ι
in
ἐπι
a recentiore manu, Μ.
ταῦθ᾽ ὑπο- γλωσσᾶ
G. Patet librarium
ὑπογλωσσᾷ
scribere voluisse.
ταῦτ᾽ ἐπι- γλώσσα
Lips.

934. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1048

δεσπόσειν:
δεσπόζειν
Vit. Vind. 2.
Ζηνός τινα;: Μ. a sec. manu, prius
ζηνός τινὰ
fuerat,
ζηνὸς τινὰ
Par. B. et adnotatum in Mosc. 1.
ζηνός τίνα
Vit.
ζηνός τίνα;
Rob.
διὸς τινὰ
G. Arund. Mosc. 2. Vind. 2. 4.
διὸς τίνα
Par. E.
διός τινα;
Ald.
τινὰ διὸς
Lips. Mosc. 1. Ven. 2. Vind. 1. 3. et adnotatum in Par. B.

935. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1049

καὶ τῶνδέ γ' ἕξει: Μ. sed prius
εξεισ
fuerat.
καὶ τῶνδε δ᾽ ἕξει
Rob.
καὶ τῶνδ᾽ ἕξει
codices nonnulli.

936. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1050

πῶς δ᾽ οὐχὶ:
πῶς δ' οὐχὶ
M. G. Vit. edd. vett.
πῶς δ' οὐκὶ
Lips. Cantabr. 1.2. Colb. 2. Vind. 2. 3. 4. quos recte secuti sunt Blomfieldius aliique.
ἐκρίπτων:
ἐκρίπτων
G. Vit. Lips.
ἐκρίπτες
Par. D. Parum elegans Elmsleii coniectura est ad Med. 1371.
τοιάδε ῥίπτων ἔπη
.

937. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1051

τί δ᾽ ἂν:
τί δαὶ
Μ.
τίνα δ᾽ ἂν
Par. F.

938. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1052

ἄν: omittunt Vit. Colb. 2.
ἂν
pro eo habent G. Mosc. 2.
τοῦδέ γ':
τοῦδ' ἀλγίω
Vit. Colb. 1. Elmsleius coniiciebat
τοῦδ᾽ ἔτ' ἀλ- γίω
, similibus quibusdam exemplis adductus: item Wellauerus. At etiam
E
recte se habet.

939. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1053

ὃ δ᾽ οὖν:
ὃ δ' αὖ
G.
ὅδ' οὖν
M. (hic quidem accentu in
ὅδ'
a rec. manu addito) Vit. Lips. aliique et Ald. Rob.
ὃ δ' οὖν
Vict. Steph. Cant. Blomfieldius Elmsleii monitu
ὃ δ' οὖν
. Et videtur id iam Turnebus voluisse in cuius editione est
O δ' οὖν
. Sed accentu notandum
ὅ
.

940. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1054

προςκυνοῦντες τὴν Ἀδράστειαν: Huius locutionis,
προςκυνοῦντες τὴν Αδράστειαν
, exempla attulit Dorvillius ad Charit. p. 332. sive 401. ed. Lips. De Adrastea copiose dixit Hermias ad Platonis Phaedrum p. 148.

941. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1055

θῶπτε:
θῶπτε
Turn. et a pr. manu M. sed
v
deletum et a sec. manu supra adscriptum
θώπευε
, quod habent G. Lips. aliique et Ald.
θῶπτε
Rob.
θῶπε
Vit.
τὸν κρατοῦντ᾽ ἀεί: Quod dicit
τὸν κρατοῦντ᾽ ἀεί
, intelligendus is cui quoque tempore regnare contigit. V. Monckium ad Eur. Ale. 716.

942. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1056

μέλει:
μέλλει
G. Vit.

943. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1057

τόνδε: omittit Lips.

944. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1058

δαρὸn:
δαρὸν
Cantabr. 1. Par. N.

945. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1059

γὰρ: omittit Lips.

947. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1060

ἀγγελῶν:
ἀγγελεῖν
, sed adscripta interpretatione
δηλώσων
, G.
ἐλήλυθεν: Μ. Ceteri
ἐλήλυθε
.

948. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1061

τὸν πικρῶς ὑπέρπικρον: Libri
τὸν πικρῶς ὑπέρπικρον
, nisi quod Vind. 3.
τοῦ διὸς ὑπέρπικρον
, Par. C. autem
ὑπερπικρῶς
. Apte Blomfieldius
αἰνόθεν αἰνῶς
ex II. VI. 97. commemoravit.

949. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1062

ἐξαμαρτόντ᾽:
ἐξαμαρτώντ'
G. et, ut videtur, a pr. manu M.
ἐξαμαρτῶνθ'
, sic, sed in
ό
mutato, Vit.
τὸν ἐφημέροις:
τὸν ἐφημέροις
Ald. Ceterae edd. cum Lips. varia lectione in Par. B. et aliis, ut videtur codicibus multis
τὸν ἐφημέροις
: sed in Lips. tenui linea traiecta deletus articulus.
ἐφημέροις
sine articulo G. Arund. Mosc. 1. Vindobonenses: sed in G. ante hanc vocem spatium duarum fere syllabarum, eraso quod scriptum fuerat.
τὸν ἀνθρώποις
Mosc. 2. ut
τοῖς ἀνθρώποις
a sec. manu adscriptum est in M.
ἐν ἡμέροις
Par. C.
τὸν ἡμέροις
M. (non
τὸν ἡμέρους
) Vit. Par. B. H. quam scripturam commemorant scholia. Blomfieldius eiecto articulo edidit
ἐφημέροις
, ut sensus esset
qui contra deos peccasti beneficia mortalibus praestando
. At hoc languet, alienumque est a tota loci conformatione, nec, si ita scripsisset poeta, addidisset
τὸν πυρὸς κλέπτην λέγω
, sed dixisset
καὶ τὸ πῦρ κλέ- ψαντα
. Porsonum Gaisfordius ad Heph. p. 243. narrat coniecisse
κα-ὶ ἐφημέροις
, quod aeque languidum est. Ipsa huius loci ratio, diversitatesque scripturae, tum etiam scholiastae testimonium monent ut
τὸν ἡμέροις
verum esse censeamus. Ne compositorum terminationes variare dicam, ut
ἐφημέριος ἐφήμερος, ἐκτόπιος ἔκτοπος, ἐγχώριος ἔγ- χώρος, παννύχιος πάννυχος
, eadem etiam simplicium ratio est, ut
ἑσπέ- ριος ἕσπερος
.

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πορόντα:
πορῶντα
Lips. Cantabr. 1.

951. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1064

πατὴρ ἄνωγέ σ': Libri omnes
πατὴρ ἄνωγέ σ'
. Brunckius, pronomen non apto loco positum esse ratus
πατήρ σ' ἄνωγεν
edidit. Deleri pronomen voluit Elmsleius. Potuisse omitti quis neget? Sed si subtilius de tantilla re quaerendum est, paullo fortior est oratio addito pronomine; si additur autem, rectius additur post
ἄνωγε
quam post
πατήρ
. Nam patrem quum nominat Iovem Mercurius, suum patrem dicit. Promethei pater si esset Iuppiter pro paternaque potestate iuberet, praeferendum esset
πατήρ σ' ἄνωγεν
.
κομπεῖς:
κομποῖς
, sed superscripto
ε
, Lips.
γάμους: Pro
γάμους
Cantabr. 1.
λόχους
, emendatius Rob.
λόγους
.

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πρὸς ὧν τ᾽:
πρὸς ὧν γ'
Cantabr. 2. Ceteri
πρὸς ὧν τ'
. In Medico
ὧν
a sec. manu scriptum est, ut quid prius scriptum fuerit dispici nequeat,
τ'
a prima. Elmsleii iussu inconsiderate delevit copulam Blomfieldius. Neque enim
ὧν
ad
γάμους
refertur, sed ad eum qui ex isto connubio natus regnum Iovi erepturus sit. Id monstrare possunt haec v. 999.
γνάμψει γὰρ οὐδὲν τῶνδέ μ' ὥςτε καὶ φράσαι πρὸς οὗ χρεών νιν ἐκπεσεῖν τυραννίδος.
ἐκπίπτει:
ἐκβληθῇ
Lips. Vind. 2. 4. Rob.
ἐκβληθῆν
aut Faehsio teste
ἐκ- βληθῇ
Par. E. Vera lectio,
ἐκπίπτει
, est in ceteris.

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ἀλλ᾽ αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστ᾽ ἔκφραζε:
ἀλλ᾽ αὐθέκαστα φράζε
Μ. a pr. manu, Arund. Cantabr. 2. Rob.
ἀλλ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἕκαστα φραζε
Μ. a sec. manu, Vit. Lips. aliique.
αὔθ' ἕκαστ᾽ ἔκφραζε
G.
ἀλλ᾽ αὐθέκαστ᾽ ἔκφραζε
Ald.
ἀλλ᾽ αὖθ᾽ ἕκαστ᾽ ἔκφραζε
Turn.
μηδέ μοι:
μηδ' ἐμοὶ
, cum lituris post
δ
et super
ι
, ut
μηδ' ἐμοὶ
scriptum fuisse videatur antequam sec. manus hoc mutavit, Μ.
μὴ δ' ἐμοὶ
G.
μὴ δέ μοι
Lips. Ald. Rob.
μηδέ μοι
Vit. aliique et Turn.
διπλᾶς: G. et e corr. Lips. in quo fuerat
διπλὰς
.

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προςβάλῃς:
πλέος
G.
προμηθεῖς προβάλλης
Lips.
βάλλης προμηθεῦ
G.

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γε καὶ:
τε καὶ
Par. B. Turn. quod probabat Elmsleius.

958. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1069

ὁ μῦθός ἐστιν: Μ. G.
θεῶν:
διὸς
pro
θεῶν
Rob.

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νέον νέοι:
νέον νέος
Lips.

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ναίειν: accentu et
αι
a sec. manu M. Eustathius p. 503, 4.
οἱ δὲ νεώτεροι πάσας τὰς ἀκροπόλεις οὕτω καλοῦσιν, οἳ καὶ οὐδετέρως τὰ πέργαμά φασιν, ὡς καὶ Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ. δῆλον δὲ ὡς ἡ Πέργαμος καὶ πόλις λέγεται.
Servius ad Aen. I. 95.
propter Pergama, quae altissima fuerunt: ex quibus omnia alla aedificia pergama vocantur, sicut Aeschylus dicit
.

961. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1072

δισσοὺς τυράννους ἐκπεσόντας: Uranum dicit et Saturnum. Recte monet Göttlingius ad Hes. Theog. 463. non de Ophione cogitasse Aeschylum.

962. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1073

κοιρανοῦντ᾽: Μ. Vit. aliique.
τυραννοῦντ'
G. Lips. aliique et edd. vett.
δοκῶ:
δοκῶ σοι
G.

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μή τί σοι:
μήτοι
Lips. Ceteri
μήτι
.

964. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1075

ὑποπτήσσειν:
ὑποπτήσειν
Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. et ante sec. manus corr. M.

965. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1076

πολλοῦ γε:
πολλοῦ δὲ
M. Lips. Ox. Ald. et adnotatum in Par. B.
πολλῶ γε
Vit. Par. H.

966. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1077

ἐγκόνει:
ἐγγόνει
Lips.

967. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1078

πεύσει: libri.
ἀνιστορεῖς: etiam M. habere videtur, ut habent Vit. Lips. aliique et Rob. Codices nonnulli et Ald.
ἂν ἱστορεῖς
habent.
ἂν ἱστορῇς
. G. Ven. 3. Turn.

968. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1079

αὐθαδίσμασιν:
αὐθαδίσμασι
Vit.

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ἐς τάσδε:
ἐς τάδε
Vit.
κατούρισας:
καθώρισας
Μ. cum litura post
ρ
, et Rob.
καθώρουσας
Par. D.
καθωρούσας
Lips. Colb. 1.
καθώρισας
, cum glossa
ἐπέβαλες
, Vit.
κατώρουσας
, superscripto
ὅρμισας
, Mosc. 1.
κατώρουσας
Par. C. (in quo
με
superscriptum) F. Ven. 3. Vind. 3.
κατόρουσας
Par. L.
καθ- ώρμησας
Par. Ε.
καθώρμισας
, quod etiam in scholiis commemoratur, G. Ald. Turn. rell. Idem pro glossa adscriptum in Ven. 2.
κατήγα- γες
Arund. Colb. 2. Ven. 2. Nimia socordia in
καθώρμισας
acquieverunt editores. Vix enim credi potest, si hoc scripsisset poeta, tantam esse fluctuationem excitatam. Scripserat ille
κατούρισας
. Participium huius verbi sic interpretatur Hesychius,
κατουρίσας, ἀθρόως πάντα κά- λων καθεὶς καὶ μὴ διαμελλήσας
. Quod Eustathius p. 1452, 47. dicit,
ἐκεῖθεν καὶ οὐρίσαι τὸ ἀποκαταστῆναι εἰς οὔριον, ὡς φασιν οἱ πα- λαιοί, καὶ κατουρίζειν ῥῆμα τραγικῶς
, id quo pertineat patet ex his p. 1282, 17.
κατουρίζειν γε τὸ κατ᾽ οὖρον πλέειν, ὡς τὸ “πόλιν κατ' ὀρθὸν οὔρισας,”
quae Sophoclis verba sunt Oed. R. v. 695. Sed de Aeschyli versu dubitationem eximent quae scholiastes scripsit ad illa in´ Trachiniis v. 828.
καὶ τάδ᾽ ὀρθῶς ἔμπεδα κατουρίζει τροπικῶς δὲ κατουρίζει, ὥςπερ οὐρίῳ πνεύματι προςορμίζει ἡμῖν κατ' ὀρθὸν ἀννομένα
.

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NA: Hic et duo qui sequuntur versus in libris omnibus continuantur Prometheo: quae ratio et per se frigida est et propter illa verba,
οὕτως ὑβρίζειν τοὺς ὑβρίζοντας χρεών
, quae, si praecedentes duo versus Promethei sunt, plane stolide ferocientis orationem praebent, non potest probari. Hinc apparet versus 972. 973. Mercurii esse, ironice Prometheo poenam pervicaciae exprobrantis. Ita deinde apte respondet Prometheus ferociae opponendam esse ferociam. Quomodo hi versus personis distribuendi essent vidit etiam Erfurdtius, ut ex litteris eius mense Februario a. 1812. ad me datis cognovi.
λατρεύειν:
λατρεύσειν
Lips.

973. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1082

φῦναι:
φῆναι
Μ. G. Vit. aliique et Ald. Turn.
φυῆναι
Vind. 2. 4.
φῦναι
Lips. Rob. Vict. edd. reliquae.
πιστὸν:
πιστὸν δ᾽
a pr. manu,
πιστόν γ'
a recentiore manu M.

974. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1083

χρεών:
χρεών τάδε
Lips.

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πράγμασιν:
πράγμασι
M. Vit. Lips. ceterique plerique et Thomas M. p. 393, 3. et ex eo Favorinus in
τρυφῶ
. Id Brunckius restituit.
πήμασι
G. Bess. edd. vett. et adnotatum in Par. B.

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χλιδῶντας:
χλιδόντας
a pr. manu M.

977. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1086

καὶ σὲ δ᾽: pravo accentu Victorius et Canterus.
καὶ σὲ δ᾽
emendate M. G. Vit. Lips. Rob. Turn.
καί σέ γ'
ex Elmsleii coniectura Blomfieldius. Obtemperarunt illi male considerato decreto Porsoni, qui in adnotatione ad Eur. Or. v. 614.
καὶ δέ
particulas in tragicis ferre nolebat. Discessit a Porsono Schaeferus ad Longum p. 350. sed non reddita ratione. Seidlerus ad Eur. El. 1112. (1117.), qui versus Promethei versui simillimus est,
τρόποι τοιοῦτοι· καὶ σὺ δ᾽ αὐθάδης ἔφυς
,
καὶ
etiam significare,
δέ
autem nectere sententias monuit. Scilicet
καὶ — γε
est
atque adeo
, et auget ante dicta, ut in Hecuba v. 1274. (1256. Pors.)
ΕΚ. οὐδὲν μέλει μοι, σοῦ γέ μοι δόντος δίκην. ΠΟ. καὶ σήν γ' ἀνάγκη παῖδα Κασσάνδραν θανεῖν. ἙΚ. ἀπέπτυσ᾽· αὐτῷ ταῦτα σοὶ δίδωμ᾽ ἔχειν. ΠΟ. κτενεῖ νιν ἡ τοῦδ᾽ ἄλοχος, οἰκουρὸς πικρά. ΕΚ. μήπω μανείη Τυνδαρὶς τοσόνδε παῖς. ΠΟ. καὐτόν γε τοῦτον, πέλεκυν ἐξάρασ᾽ ἄνω.
Multum ab hoc differt
καὶ δέ
, quo non augentur ea quae praecesserunt, sed additur iis diversum quid, quod eiusdem generis sit, unde
καὶ
, idque vel confirmandi caussa, ut in Promethei atque Euripideae Electrae exemplis,
dico autem te quoque in his : es autem tu quoque ferox
, vel simpliciter ut addatur aliquid consimile, ut in Persis v. 151.
προπίτνω, προπίτνω· καὶ προςφθόγγοις δὲ χρεὼν αὐτὴν πάντας μύθοισι προςαυδῶν.
Et v. 541. ubi quum feminas Persarum lugere dixit chorus, haec adiicit,
κἀγὼ δὲ μόρον τῶν οἰχομένων αἴρω δοκίμως πολυπενθῆ.

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συμφοραῖς ἐπαιτιᾷ:
συμφορᾶς
Par. D. Et sic corrigendum putabat Valckenarius ad Phoen. 632. Ceteri libri
συμφοραῖς
. Id dicit
propter casus tuos
, non ut dativus ex praepositione quae est in
καὶ
pendeat, quod placebat Abreschio.
ἐπαιτιᾶς
Par. D.

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ἐχθαίρω:
ἐχθραίνω
Par. D. N. Turn. Apud Aristophanem in Avibus v. 1547. Prometheus
μισῶ δ᾽ ἅπαντας τοὺς θεούς, ὡς οἶσθα σύ
.

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ἐκδίκως:
ἀδίκως
G. Mosc. 2.

981. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1090

σμικρὰν: quod Brunckius posuit, habere videtur M. Ceteri
μικράν
.

983. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1091

πράσσοις:
πράσσεις
Par. E. Vindobonenses et Ald. sed optativus superscriptus in Vind. 3. In Vit. fuerat
πράσσοις
, quod in
πράσσεις
mutatum est, sed a pr. manu rursus superscripto
οι
.

984. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1092

ὤμοι: In G. Lips. Promethei exclamatio ut singularis versus separata est, scripta in Lips.
ἰώ μοι
. Elmsleius
οἴμοι
, idque in scholiastarum explicationibus ponitur. Non haec dolentis malis suis vox est, sed cum dolore indignantis ob perversum illud deorum de se iudicium. Quo plus autem ponderis in hac brevitate est, eo minus miranda est inversio
στιχομυθίας
, ut dehinc non Mercurius Prometheo, sed Prometheus Mercurio respondeat.

985. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1093

ἐκδιδάσκει: In
ἐκδιδάσκει
litteras
κδ
a recentiore,
δασ
a sec. manu in litura habet M.

987. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1094

προςηύδων:
προσηύδον
G. Lips.
οὐκ ἂν ὄνθ᾽:
οὐθ'
M.

990. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1095

ὥςτε παῖδά με:
ὡς παῖδά με
M. G. Vit. Lips. Vind. 2. 4.
ὡς παῖδ᾽ ὄντα με
Vind. 1. 3. edd. omnes.
ὥςτ' ἐμὲ
Par. E. Illud mirum, quod nulli editorum numerus, qui in vulgata scriptura est, offensioni fuit, quum praesertim omissum in M. aliisque codicibus participium admonere potuerit scripsisse Aeschylum
ὥςτε παῖδά με
.

991. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-1096

κἄτι:
καὶ ἔτι
M. (non
καί 'τι
) G. Vit. Lips. edd. vett.
κἄτι
Valckenarius ad Hipp. 914.
τοῦδ᾽:
τοῦδε
Vit.
πευσεῖσθαι:
πευσείσθαι
M. G. Lips. Par. B. edd. vett.
πεύσεσθαι
Vit. Colb. 1. et in quo
ε
superscriptum Par. D.
πεσεῖσθαι
Ven. 3. et quantum Brunckius dispicere poterat Par. A.
μηχάνημ᾽:
μηχάνημι
Lips.
προτρέψεται:
προστρέψεται
Vit. Par. C. Eodem modo quum
προτρέψεται
in M. recentior manus mutasset, adscripsit in margine
προτρέ
.
αἰθαλοῦσσα:
αἰθαλόεσσα
M. Vindobonenses.
αἰθόεσσα
G. Vit. Lips. Bess. edd. vett.
αἰθάλουσα
Par. A. Colb. 2. 7o.
αἰδαλοῦσσα
margo M. a sec. manu.
αἰδαλοῦσσα
Valckenarius ad Phoen. 524. et sic iam Canterus.
λευκοπτέρῳ δὲ νιφάδι:
Λευκοπτέροις δὲ νιφάσι
Colb. 1. Par. E. et adnotatum in Par. B. βροντήμασιν:
βροντήμασιν
Vit. Ceteri
βροντήμασι
, praeter Bess. qui
βροντήματι
habet. γρ.
ἐκβροντήμασι
Par. B. In G. hoc ordine versus positi sunt, 998. 997. 999. sed adscriptis numeris
αγ
restitui iustus ordo iubetur.
χθονίοις: unus scholiastarum non ad
βροντήμασιν
rettulit, sed voluit de hominibus dictum esse. Hominum cur hic mentio fieret, caussa nulla erat, praesertim in loco deserto.
γνάμψει:
γνάψει
Cantabr. Colb. 1. et
μ
supra adscripto M.
κάμψει
Lips. Par. D.
γάμψει
Par. C. ὥςτε:
ἅτε
pro
ὥςτε
G. φράσαι:
φράσειν
M. Vit. Vind. 2.
φράσσειν
Colb. 1. Par. E.
φράσαι
, superscripto
σο
, Par. D.
νῦν:
νῦν
M.
νῦν
G. Vit. Lips. Ald. Rob.
νῶν
Turn.
ὦπται πάλαι δὴ καὶ βεβούλευται τάδε:
ὦπται πάλαι
M. idemque ex Par. C. affertur.
ὦπται δὲ ταῦτα, καὶ βεβούλευται πάλαι
Rob.
τόλμησόν ποτε:
τόλμησον ποτὲ
Lips. C. NA: καὶ omittit Par. C.
ὀρθῶς:
κακῶς
pro
ὀρθῶς
Arund. Par. C. et adnotatum in Par. B.
με: omittit Vit. in quo
ἐμέ
ut explicatio superscriptum est.
εἰςελθέτω σε μήποθ' ὡς:
εἰσελθέτω σε μηπάθ᾽ ὡς
a pr. manu M. in cuius margine
μή πόθ᾽ ὡς
a recentiore manu adscriptum est.
εἰσελθέτω σε μήποθ' ὡς
G. sed ut signo sub
σὲ μήποθ'
apposito superscriptum
ἔννοια
inseri iubeatur.
εἰσελθέτω σ᾽ ἔννοια μήποθ' ὡς
Lips. aliique nonnulli.
στυγούμενον:
στυγούμενον
diphthongo a rec. manu scripta M.
ὑπτιάσμασιν:
ὑπτιάσμασιν
M.
ὑπτιάσμασι
G. Vit. Lips. et edd. ante Vict. Sopater parodus in Dax apud Athenaeum VI. p. 230. E.
δρακοντομίμοις ὀργάνων το ρεύμασιν
. De resupinatis manibus v. Spanh. ad Iulianum p. 262.
λῦσαί με δεσμῶν τῶνδε:
λῦσαί με τῶν δεσμῶν τῶνδε
Vit. et aliquot alii. τοῦ παντὸς δέω:
τοῦ παντὸς δέων
Vit.
τοῦδε παντὼς δέω
, sic, omisso
τῶνδε
, G.
τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς δέω
, omisso
τώνδε
, Lips.
καὶ μάτην ἐρεῖν:
ἀλλ᾽ ἐρεῖν μάτην
secunda manus in marg. G.
τέγγει:
τέγγῃ
libri. μαλθάσσει κέαρ:
μαλθάσσῃ
M. G. Rob. Turn.
μαλθάσῃ
Vit. Lips. aliique et Ald. Post
μαλθάσσῃ
omnes libri habent
λιταῖς
et in principio sequentis versus
λιταῖς
, praeter Robortelli editionem, quae divisionem versuum eandem retinens ante
λιταῖς
inserit
γὰρ
. Recte videtur Porsonus, quem Blomfieldius secutus est, recepisse
κέαρ
, eiecisse autem
λιταῖς
, etsi ne apud scholiastas quidem ullum est Robortellianae scripturae vestigium. Non enim cuius precibus non flecteretur Prometheus dicendum erat, sed omnino precibus vinci durum eius cor recusare.
νεοζυγὴς:
νεοζυγὸς
Vit.
βιάζει:
βιάζει
Par. E. Ceteri
βιάζῃ
. μάχει:
μάχη
libri.
νίαν
G. Mosc. 2.
ἀτὰρ:
αὐτὰρ
Vit. Lips. et adnotatum in Par. B. σφοδρύνει:
σοφίζῃ
Lips. Rob. Ceteri
σφοδρύνῃ
. ἀσθενεῖ:
ἀσθενῆ
Vit.
αὐθαδία:
αὐθάδεια
Vit.
αὐτὴ:
αὐτῆ
Lips. μεῖον: Omnes libri
μεῖζον
. Stanleii emendatio est
μεῖον
, recepta a Brunckio et Porsono alüsque. Servarunt
μεῖζον
Scholefieldius, cum scholiasta aeque ac nihil valet interpretans, et Wellauerus, significari volens neminem superal. At neque quod aeque ac nihil valet recte plus nihilo valere dicitur, neque de superando quoquam hic sermo est, sed de eo qui polleat pertinacia. Lentingius ad Eur. Andr. v. 690. Graecos aliter quam nos in talibus locutos esse suspicatur. At hoc genus comparationis cam rationem videtur habere, quae inverti nequeat. Neque inverterunt Graeci. Supra v. 510. Et v. 942.
ὡς ἐγὼ εὔελπίς εἰμι τῶνδέ σ' ἐκ δεσμῶν ἔτι λυθέντα μηδὲν μεῖον ἰσχύσειν Διός.
ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἔλασσον Ζηνὸς ἢ μηδὲν μέλει.
Aristophanis quidem locum Acharn. v. 256. Lentingius non debebat afferre, qui adversetur potius eius suspicioni quam ut eam comprobet. In Andromachae Euripideae versu, qui est meae editionis 694. libri et plures et meliores
ὅσῳ
habent.
ἐὰν μὴ:
δὲ ἐὰν μὴ
G.
δὲ ἂν μὴ
Vit. Aliter in aliis libris peccatum. πεισθῇς:
πείθη
Par. B. K. L. Ven. 2. adnotatumque in Vind. 3. qui
πεισθῇ
habet.
πεισθῇς
ceteri et adnotatum in Par. B.
χειμὼν καὶ κακῶν τρικυμία: Scholiastes Pindari ad Isthm. I. 52.
καὶ Αἰσχύλος τὴν δυστυχίαν χειμῶνα καὶ τρικυμίαν λέγει
. Scribendum enim ibi esse
Αἰσχύλος
pro vulgato
Ἀλκαῖος
Blomfieldius vidit.
ἄφυκτος:
ἀφύκτως
, mutatum a rec. manu in
ἄφυκτος
, M. ἀκρίδα:
ἀκρίδα
Ald. Rob.
κεραυνίᾳ:
κεραυνίῳ
Vit. et ante correctionem Lips.
πετραία δ᾽ ἀγκάλη:
πετραίᾳ δ' ἀγκάλη
Ald. Rob.
ἐκτελευτήσας:
ἐκτελευτήσας
, superscripto a rec. manu γρ.
ἐκπλήσας
, Vit.
ἄψορρον:
ἄψορον
Lips. Inutilis coniectura Blomfieldii
ἄψορρος
. ἐς:
εἰς
M. G. Vit. Lips. Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. D. H. Ald. Rob.
ἐς
Turn. δέ σοι:
δ᾽ ἔτι
Par. H. Ceteri
δέ τοι
. At
τοι
particula quid hic opus sit non apparet. Requiritur potius
δέ σοι
, idque posui.
κύων: Grammaticus περὶ τρόπου μεταφορᾶς καὶ ὑπερβάτου apud Ruhnkenium Ep. crit. I. p. 93. (148.)
τῶν μεταφορῶν αἱ μὲν ἀπὸ εἴδους ἐπὶ εἶδος μεταφέρονται, ὡς τὸν ἀετὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ σκήπτρου τοῦ Διὸς κύνα Αἰσχύλος καλεῖ. εἴδη γὰρ ὅ τε κύων καὶ ὁ ἀετὸς τοῦ ζώου.
αἰετὸς:
αἰετὸς
libri praeter Lips. qui
ἀετὸς
habet. λάβρως:
λάβρως
M. G. Vit. Bess. Ald. Turn.
λάβρος
Arund. Par. A. B. D. Rob. et superscripto
ως
Par. N.
λαῦρος
Mosc. 1. et superscripto
β
Lips. adnotatumque in Par. B.
ἄκλητος:
ἅλητος
G. Ad
ἄκλητος
in margine M. sec. manus
ἄκλειστος
adscripsit. πανήμερος:
ἀνήμερος
Vit. ex correctione, quum antea, ut in ceteris, scriptum esset
πανήμερος
. Adiecta interpretatio
ἄγριος
. Aut aliter aut accuratius descripsit in Prometheo soluto apud Ciceronem Qu. Tusc. II. 10.
iam tertio me quoque funesto die tristi advolalu aduncis lacerans unguibus Iovis satelles pastu dilaniat fero.
κελαινόβρωτον δ᾽ ἧπαρ:
κελαινόβροτον δ᾽ ἧπαρ
Vit.
κελαινόβροτον ἧπαρ
Lips. ἐκθοινήσεται:
ἐκθοινήσηται
Vit.
τοιοῦδε:
τοῦ σοῦ δὲ
Cantabr. 2. Ven. 3. et adnotatum in Par. B. μόχθου:
τέρμα μόχθου
Lips. μή τι:
μή του
M. Par. E. Vind. 1. 3.
τοι μὴ
, sed corr.
μή τι
, Mosc. 1.
μὴ δὲ
Cantabr. 2. et adnotatum in Par. B.
θεῶν τις:
θεῶν γε τὶς
Lips. Apollodorus II. 5, 11. §. 12. de Hercule
καὶ τὸν Προμηθέα διέλυσε δεσμὸν ἑλόμενον τὸν τῆς ἐλαίας, καὶ παρέσχε τῷ Διὶ Χείρωνα, ἀθάνατον ὄντα, θνήσκειν ἀντ᾽ αὐτοῦ θέλοντα
. Idem de Chirone II. 5, 4. §. 6.
ἀνίατον ἔχων τὸ ἕλκος εἰς τὸ σπήλαιον ἀπαλλάσσεται, κἀκεῖ τελευτῆσαι βουλόμενος καὶ μὴ δυνάμενος, ἐπείπερ ἀθάνατος ἦν, ἀντιδόντος Προμηθέως τὸν ἀντ᾽ αὐτοῦ τεθνηξόμενον ἀθάνατον, οὕτως ἀπέθανε
. V. ad fr. 214. Recte monuit Welckerus in Trilogia p. 48. dicere haec Mercurium, ut quae vix umquam sperandum sit eventura esse; nam aliter eum, quod tamen nolit, spem aliquam liberationis facere Prometheo. Ceterum facile, qui animum advertat, ne hanc quidem fabulam temere inventam esse sentiet. Significat enim periclitantibus nec semper bene cedentibus sollertis ingenii repertis perire quae manu effecta sint, mentis autem vim manere immortalem. Non dissimile est illud Homericum de Hercule, cuius mortalis natura simulacrum suum habet apud inferos,
αὐτὸς δὲ μετ᾿ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν τέρπεται ἐν θαλίῃς, καὶ ἔχει καλλίσφυρον Ἥβην.
θελήσῃ τ':
φωνῆ καὶ θελήσει τ'
Lips.
θελήσῃ δ'
Cantabr. 1. 2.
θελήσει το
Vit. Par. A. B. Ald. Rob.
πλήσῃ
, cum glossa
ὑπομείνῃ
, Mosc. 1. εἰς: Non omittit
εἰς
M. sed ad
ἀναύγητον
super
ν
litteram
δ
recentior manus adscripsit.
κνεφαῖά τ' ἀμφὶ:
κνεμφαῖα τ' ἀμφὶ
Lips.
κνεφαῖα ἀμφὶ
Vit.
καὶ λίαν:
καὶ λίαν
omittunt Par. E. Vind. 2. 4. Ald. Rob.
καὶ λείαν
a pr. manu habuisse videtur M.
καὶ λίαν τ'
Lips.
ψευδηγορεῖν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταται στόμα τὸ Δῖον: Scholiastes Pindari ad Ol. VI. 105. sine auctoris nomine haec affert,
ψευδηγορεῖν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταται στόμα τὸ θεῖον
.
τελεῖ:
τελεῖν
Ox. Ald. quod adnotavit etiam Turnebus.
πάπταινε:
πάμπαινε
Lips.
εὐβουλίας:
εὐβουλίας
et v. 1042.
εὐβουλίαν
Lips. ἀμείνον':
ἄμεινον
M. a pr. manu et Vit.
ἀμείνων
G.
ἄνωγε γάρ σε τὴν αὐθαδίαν μεθέντ' ἐρευνᾶν τὴν σοφὴν εὐβουλίαν. πείθου: Schutzius haec verba,
ἄνωγε γάρ σε τὴν αὐθαδίαν μεθέντ᾽ ἐρευνᾶν τὴν σοφὴν εὐβουλίαν. πείθου
, interpretis esse suspicabatur. Recte fortasse. σε:
σοι
pro
σε
Lips.
πείθου:
πιθοῦ
Cantabr. 2. Par. L. Vind. 2. 4. quod ex Elmsleii decreto Blomfieldius recepit. V. ad Soph. El. v. 1003.
εἰδότι τοί μοι: Hos anapaestos usque ad finem fabulae antithetica forma factos indicavi in El. doctr. metr. p. 784.
εἰδότι μοι
, omisso
τοι
, Lips. aliique et Rob.
εἶν᾿ ὅτι μοι
G.
εἰ δότι τι μοι
Bess.
εἰδὲ τί μοι
Ald.
ἐθώϋξεν:
ἐθώνξεν
M.
ἐθώνξε
G. Vit. Lips. edd. vett.
πρὸς ταῦτ᾽ ἐπ' ἐμοὶ ῥιπτέσθω:
προσταῦτ᾽
, litteris
στ
a rec. manu, M.
ἐπί μοι ῥιπτέσθω
(non
ῥιπτείσθω
) M.
ἐπ'
omittunt G. Mosc. 2. Ald.
βόστρυχος:
βόστρυφος
Lips. αἰθὴρ δ':
αἰθέρα δ'
Vit.
σφακέλῳ τ' ἀγρίων ἀνέμων:
σφακέλῳ. τ' ἀγρίων τ' ἀνέμων
G. Ald. πυθμένων:
πυθμίων
Lips.
συγχώσειεν:
συγχώσειεν
M.
συγχώσῃ
Vit. (in quo ab interprete superscriptum
ἐμὲ
) Turn. Vict.
συγχώσειεν ἐμὲ
G. Lips. Ox. Par. D. N. Bess. Ald. adnotatumque in Par. B.
συγχώσειε ἐμὲ
Par. B.
συγχώσειέ με
Ven. 2.
συγχώσει' ἐμὲ
Par. E. Vind. 2. 4.
συγχώσει με
Rob.
συγχώσειεν ἐμοῦ
Ven. 1. In edd. vett. plene interpungebatur ante
τῶν τ᾽ οὐρανίων
, quod corrigendum esse vidit Stanleius. Lucretius III. 854.
non, si terra mari miscebitur et mare caelo.
V. ibi interpretes et ad Iuvenalem II. 25.
ἔς τε:
ὥστε
Lips.
ἄρδην:
ἄρδην
Lips.
ᾅδην
Par. D.
γρ. καὶ ᾅδην
margo Mosc. 1.
ἀνάγκης στερεαῖς δίναις:
ἀνάγκη στερραῖς δίκαις
Par. E.
στερραῖς
etiam Mosc. 2.
στερεαῖς
Mosc. 1. Ceteri
στερραῖς
. Praeferenda videtur apud Aeschylum antiquior forma
στερεαῖς
, qua versu quoque 174. usus est.
εἴ γ' οὐδ᾽ εὐχῇ τι χαλᾷ μανιῶν:
τοῦδ' εὐτυχῇ
, sic, spiritu et accentu in
η
a sec. manu additis (non
εἰ τοῦδ'
) M. in cuius margine recentior manus
εἰ τάδ'
adscripsit.
εἰ τάδ' εὐτυχῇ
Vit. Lips. Arund. Par. D. E. F. H. N. Ven. 1. 2. 3. Bess. Ald. Rob.
εἰ τάδ᾽ εὐτυχῇ
G.
εἰ τάδ᾽ εὐτυχεῖ
, superscripto
σοι
, Mosc. 1.
εἶτα δ' εὐτυχῇ
Cantabr. 1. 2. Par. K. L.
εἰ δ' εὐτυχῇ
Turn. Omnes libri
τί χαλᾷ μανιῶν
, nisi quod in Ald.
τὶ
scriptum, praeter Ven. 2. in quo est
τί μὴ χαλᾷ μανίαν
? Hic codex et Lips. Rob. hunc versum tribuunt choro. Canterus coniiciebat
εἰ δὲ τάδ᾽ ἀτυχῆ
Brunckius edidit
εἰ δὲ τάδ' ἀτυχεῖ
. Quod Porsonum, sed diffidenter coniecisse a Gaisfordio accepit,
εἰ μηδ᾽ ἀτυχῶν τι χαλᾷ μανιῶν
, recipiendum duxit Blomfieldius, interpretans parum accommodate si ne quum ausis quidem exciderit. Nam quae sunt illa ausa? Porsonum de consilio cogitasse puto, quo exciderit Prometheus, qui se speraverit liberatum iri a Iove, cognoscere cupiente quomodo effugere posset regni amittendi periculum. At et obscurius hoc dictum esset, et, ut Mercurius non perspexerit mentem Promethei, certe quod ad spectatores attinet parum apte, qui supra audiverunt tertia demum post decimam ab Ione generationem exstiturum esse qui liberet Prometheum. Omitto scripturam violentius quam par erat mutatam. Quam reprehensionem dum vitare vult Bothius, fato suo tractus deteriora dedit,
εἰ τᾷδ᾽ ἀτυχεῖ, τί χαλᾷ μανιῶν
? Sensu non malam, sed iusto audaciorem coniecturam, quam ego in Observationibus criticis adolescens et nondum cognita Medicei libri scriptura protuli,
τί τάδ᾽ ἠτύχθη
? recepit Boissonadius. Wellauerus, sententia bona, sed forma dicendi in hoc genere insueta, coniecit
εἰ τῇδε τύχῃ τί χαλᾷ μανιῶν
? ut
τί
interrogativum idem sit quod nihil. Reisigius coniecit
εἴ τι δὲ ψυχῇ τί χαλᾷ μανιῶν
? quod languidum est et certo non scriptum ab Aeschylo. Scholefieldius ex Butleri coniectura edidit
εἰ δ᾽ εὖ τάδ᾽ ἔχει, τί χαλᾷ μανιῶν
? quo sensu librorum nonnullorum
εἰ τάδ᾽ εὐτυχῆ
dictum esse scholiastae putarunt. Ineptam vero hanc sententiam esse sensit is qui in Ven. 2. scripsit
τί μὴ χαλᾷ μανίαν
. Dindorfius posuit
τί γὰρ ἐλλείπει μὴ παραπαίειν ἡ τοῦδε τύχη
? ut diceretur nihil Promethei fortunae ad mentis alienationem deesse. At hac sententia nihil alienius est. Esset haec enim et miserescentis oratio, et non exprobrantis insaniam, sed re vera mentis non compotem futurum credentis. Accedit quod sic perinutile additamentum est
τί χαλᾷ μανιῶν
? Blomfieldius in prima editione propius a vero abfuit, quum scriberet
εἰ γ' οὐδὲ τύχῃ τι χαλᾷ μανιῶν
, reprehensus ab Elmsleio ob soloecum si ou. Perantiquum esse vitium ex scholiastarum adnotationibus intelligitur, qui vel
εἰ τάδ᾽ ἀτυχῆ
vel
εἰ τὰ τοῦδ' ἀτυχῆ
legerunt. Ortum id est ex eo, quod quum per errorem
τυχῆ
scriptum fuisset, supra adscriptum
εὐ
non, uti debebat, pro emendatione primae illius vocabuli syllabae, sed pro omissa syllaba acceptum est. Emendato igitur illo
τυχῆ
remanet antiqua scriptura
τοῦδ' εὐχῇ
vel
εἰ τοῦδ' εὐχῇ
, quae lenissima mutatione facta praebet
τί γὰρ ἐλλείπει μὴ παραπαίειν, εἴ γ' οὐδ᾽ εὐχῇ τι χαλᾷ μανιῶν;
quid enim deest ad insaniam, si ne voto quidem quidquam de furore suo remittit? i. e. si eo furoris progreditur, ut etiam optet illa fieri quae minatus est Iuppiter? Id
εἴ γ' οὐδέ
dici debuit, non potuit
εἴ γε μηδέ
. Nam
εἰ μή
est nisi: ubi autem aliquid sumitur, quod re vera aut non fit aut non factum est aut non est futurum,
οὐ
sequitur particulam conditionalem, quia idem significatur quod his,
ἐπεὶ οὐ
. Exempla, sed ratione rei non perspecta, attulit Creuzerus in Melet. parte III. p. 21. Magis perspexit Matthiae in gramm. Gr. §. 608, 5, b. p. 1440. Adde Xenoph. Anab. 1. 7, 18. VI. 6, 16.
ὑμεῖς γ' αἱ πημοσύναις: Huic versui Mercurii nomen apponunt Lips. Rob.
ὑμεῖς γε π.
M. G. Lips. ceterique plerique et Ald. Rob.
ὑμεῖς δὲ π.
Vit.
ὑμεῖς γ' αἱ π.
restituit Turnebus.
που: In Ven. 3.
ο
ad
ποῦ
superscriptum est.
ποι
Iacobo Tatio obsequens scripsit Blomfieldius.
ὑμῶν:
ὑμῖν
Vit.
μύκημ':
μήκυμ'
Vit.
ἄλλο τι:
ἄλλο τι
a pr. manu habuisse videtur M. παραμυθοῦ μ':
παραμυθοῦ μοι
G. Mosc. 2.
ἄλλο τι παραμυθοῦ καὶ φώνει μοι
Bess.
ἄλλοτι καὶ παραμυθοῦ
Ald.
τοῦδ':
τοῦδ'
Vit. Par. E.
τοὺς προδότας γὰρ:
τοὺς προδότας γὰρ
libri. Blomfieldius Bothium secutus
τοὺς γὰρ προδότας
scripsit, quod non male factum iudicavit Elmsleius. Vt id ad numeros suavius sit, ad sententiam potior est librorum scriptura, praesertim si haec ita dicta sunt, ut non tantum ad Prometheum, sed etiam ad quendam eo tempore proditionis suspectum referuntur. Scholiastae ad v. 1070. Iphicratem quempiam respici volunt, qui pecunia corruptus exercitum hosti prodiderit. De eo Iphicrate nihil constat: clarum enim illum Iphicratem, qui res ab Olympiade XCVI. gessit, quo tempore pridem mortuus erat Aeschylus, intelligi non posse apertum est. Reisigio, ut quidem C. G. Hauptius in Aeschylearum quaestionum specimine primo p. 124. narrat, Pausaniae proditio, quae innotuerit Ol. LXXVII. 4. tangi visa est. Rectius, opinor, populi de Themistocle vel opinionem vel iudicium significari censebimus. Nam Themistocles, ut Diodorus XI. 54. scribit, quum proditionis accusatus, sed insons iudicatus, multum polleret Athenis, mox Ol. LXXVII. 2. ostracismo in exsilium est missus, mox autem iterum eiusdem criminis per Lacedaemonios reus factus Argis ad Admetum regem Molossorum confugit. Sed iam ante exsilium Timocreon Rhodius eum, quod se, hospitem suum, prodidisset, ut proditorem perstrinxerat versibus, quos in vita eius cap. 21. servavit Plutarchus, appellans
ψεύστην, ἄδικον, προδόταν, ὃς Τιμοκρέοντα ξεῖνον ἐόντ', ἀργυρίοις σκυβαλικτοῖσι πεισθείς, οὐ κατᾶγεν εἰς πάτραν Ἰάλυσον.
Cuiusmodi privati hominis proditio, quae deserendo amico fit, aptius hic notaretur quam proditio rei publicae: nec profecto mirandum esset, si sermonibus Atheniensium iactata ne scenicam quidem commemorationem effugisset.
νόσος: Post
νόσος
Lips. addit
χείρων
.
ἅ γ' ἐγὼ: Personae notam omittunt M. Lips.
ἅττ' ἂν γ' ἃ
Arund. quod erit fortasse qui defendendum putabit: sed ei exemplis opus erit, in quibus
μεμνῆσθαι ὅτε
cum praesente tempore constructum sit, qualia mihi quidem non sunt in promptu.
ἅττα ἐγὼ
Rob.
ἅττ' ἂν
Bess. Ald. Vict. Cant.
ἅ γ'
M. (sic M. non
ἃ γ' ὢ
) G. Vit. Lips. Par. A. B. E. F. N. Ven. 3.
ἃ γ', ἃ γ'
Turn.
ἃ γ'
Porsonus, quem secutus est Blomfieldius, male ille reprehendens Parrium
ἅγγελλε
coniicientem et qui huic assensus est Elmsleium, quia ne satis Graece quidem sic dici arbitrabatur: nam
γε
non posse nisi post
μέμνησθε
collocari. In quo non minus falli videtur, quam quum negavit in Sophoclis Antigona v. 207. scribi potuisse
κοὔποτ' ἐκ γ' ἐμοῦ
. Exemplorum quae Elmsleius ad probandum
ἃ γ'
attulit, unum hoc aptum est Aiacis v. 535.
ἀλλ᾽ οὖν ἐγὼ φύλαξα τοῦτό γ' ἀρκέσαι.
Ex quo intelligitur dicere potuisse Aeschylum
ἀλλ᾽ οὖν μέμνησθε ταῦτά γε, ἃ προλέγω
. Atqui quum
ἃ
pro
ταῦτα ἃ
dicitur, non alius particulae locus assignari potest quam post
ἃ
. Quare
ἃ γ' ἐγὼ προλέγω
recepi. Nam
ἅττα
dici non potuisse certum est. V. praef. ad Soph. Oed. R. p. VI. Temere enim oblocutus est Wellauerus.
θηραθεῖσαι:
παραθεῖσαι
, sed superscripto primae syllabae
θη
, G.
μέμψησθε:
πέμψησθε
et
εἴπηθ'
:
εἴπηθ'
G. et alii nonnulli.
ὡς:
ὃς
pro
ὡς
Lips. et alii nonnulli. ὑμᾶς:
ὑμᾶς
, superscripto
ι
, Lips.
ὑμῖς
G. et alii nonnulli.
εἰςέβαλεν:
εἰσέβαλεν
M. Cantabr. 1.
εἰσέβαλε
G. Vit. Lips. edd. vett.
εἰσέβαλλεν
Colb. 2.
εἰσέβαλλε
Bess.
ὑπέβαλε
Mosc. 1. μὴ δῆτ':
μὴ δέ τ'
G.
αὐτὰς:
αὐτοὺς
G.
κοὐκ:
καὶ οὐκ
M. Vit. Lips. Rob. adnotatumque in Par. B.
οὐκ
, omisso
καὶ
, G. Cantabr. 2. Par. B. C. Bess. Ald.
κοὐκ
Turn. λαθραίως:
κρυφίως
pro
λαθραίως
Par. F. K. L.
ἀπέραντον:
ἀπέρατον
, superscripto a rec. manu
ν
, M.
NA: Versus 1084-1094. choro tribuit Vit.
κοὐκ ἔτι:
τ' οὐκέτι
Rob.
κοὐ
, omisso
ἔτι
, Lips. Par. K. L. adnotatumque in Par. B.
σεσάλευται:
σαλεύεται
Vit. aliique nonnulli. ἠχὼ:
ἠχὴ
ante correctionem Lips. βρυχία:
βρυχία ἠχώ
neque ea est quae a mari venit, neque vero, ut scholiastis et Blomfieldio placuit,
μεγάλη
,
ἠχητική
, fremens esse potest. Vbique enim hoc vocabulum et quae cum eo cognata sunt
β
breve habentia a
βρέχειν
potius quam a
βρύχεσθαι
habent originem. Quo in genere et scholiastes Apollonii Rhodii ad I. 1310. et multi multis in veterum scriptorum locis errarunt. Iniiciat fortasse aliquam dubitationem illud Sophoclis in Antigona v. 336. ubi omnia tentans humani generis ausus dicitur per mare
περιβρυχίοισι περῶν ὑπ᾽ οἴδμασιν
. Sed ibi quoque non circum frementes, sed circum hiscentes undae intelligendae sunt. Quare si de sono tonitruum hic loqueretur Aeschylus,
βρυχία
dicere debebat. At non hoc ille, sed sonitum subterraneum isto nomine appellavit, quem
βροντήματα χθόνια
dixerat v. 996. Idque ostendunt etiam illa quae proxime praecedunt,
χθὼν σεσάλευται
. Ex quo intelligitur vocabulum illud eo hic significatu dictum esse, quo etiam
ὑποβρύχιος
interdum non id quod in aqua demersum est, sed omnino quod est aliqua re obrutum denotat. Sic Plato in Phaedro p. 248. A. animas curru vectas fingens,
αἱ δὲ δὴ ἄλλαι γλιχόμεναι μὲν ἅπασαι τοῦ ἄνω ἕπονται, ἀδυνατοῦσαι δὲ ὑποβρύχια συμπεριφέρονται, πατοῦσαι ἀλλήλας καὶ ἐπιβάλλουσαι, ἑτέρα πρὸ τῆς ἑτέρας πειρωμένη γενέσθαι
. Et Lucianus de Dipsadibus c. 3.
ἑρπετὰ γὰρ ποικίλα μεγέθει τε μέγιστα καὶ πλήθει πάμπολλα καὶ τὰς μορφὰς ἀλλόκοτα καὶ τὸν ἰὸν ἄμαχα ἐπινέμεται τὴν γῆν, τὰ μὲν ὑποβρύχια φωλεύοντα ἐν μυχῇ τῆς ψάμμου, τὰ δὲ ἄνω ἐπιπολάζοντα
.
εἱλίσσουσι:
ἑλίσσουσιν
M. Colb. 1.
ἑλίσσουσι
G. Vit. Lips. ceterique plerique et Ald. Rob.
ἑλλίσσουσι
Cantabr. 2.
ἐλείσσουσι
Par. E.
εἱλίσσουσι
Turn.
εἰς ἄλληλα:
εἰσάλληλα
G.
ἀποδεικνύμενα:
ἀποδεικνύμενα
M. G. Vit, et plerique codd. et Ald. Turn.
ἐπιδεικνύμενα
Ven. 3.
ἀντιδεικνύμενα
Par. F. K. L. N. Rob,
ἀντιδεικνύμην
Par. E.
ἀντιδικούμενα
non male Lips. ξυντετάρακται:
ξυντέρακται
Vit.
ξυντετάρεκται
Lips.
τοιάδ':
ὡς τοιάδ'
Vit.
φόβον:
φόνον
commemorat Stephanus, ex scholiis, nisi fallor, At is scribarum error est.
στείχει:
στείχειν
Lips. ὦ μητρὸς ἐμῆς σέβας: In cod. Bigoti
Θέμις
pro
ἐμῆς
legi ait Blomfieldius. Cantabr. 1. 2.
θέμις
addunt post
πάντων
, item
θέμα
Par. E. γρ.
ὦ πάντων θέμις
in margine Lips. Sic legit etiam unus scholiastarum. Quum hoc systema uno hemistichio brevius in libris nostris sit quam illud cui respondet, apertum est aut in illo aliquid male additum, aut omissum aliquid in hoc esse. Atqui in illo nihil est quod non videatur a poeta esse profectum, hic vero est aliqua neglectorum a librariis aliquot verborum suspicio. Eam ego quidem non promam ex illa quorundam librorum scriptura
ὦ πάντων θέμις
, neque ex scholiastarum adnotationibus, quorum unus illam ipsam scripturam interpretatur, alii autem
ὦ μῆτερ ἐμὴ Γῆ εἰ ὦ Θέμις
vel
ὦ Γὴ ἢ ὦ Θέμι
adscripserunt. Patet enim haec omnia ab interpretibus profecta esse, qui quod supra Prometheus matrem suam et Themin et Tellurem appellasset, alterum horum numinum hic invocari intelligebant. Quorum ille rectius iudicavit, qui
Γῆ
adscripsit. Nam in huiusmodi obtestatione eos appellari deos convenit, quorum vis et potestas universam rerum naturam complectitur, i. e. caelum et terram, quo quidquid usquam testari insigne facinus possit uno complexu comprehendatur. Verum etsi dubitari non potest qum Prometheus, quum
ὦ μητρὸς ἐμῆς σέβας
dicit, Terram velit intelligi, tamen, si eam non ipso illo nomine invocat, et obscurior est illa appellatio, praesertim quum etiam Themin matrem eius perhiberi sciamus, et eam ob caussam etiam minus gravis omninoque minus apta. Neque vero hoc alterum nomen, Themis, non est huic loco accommodatissimum, quum, cuius rei caussa Prometheus caelum et terram antestatur, iniuria sit, qua eum summa affecit Iuppiter. Hinc coniici licet poetam, qui haec bene sentiret, utraque hic appellatione vocandam esse deam illam iudicasse. Itaque v. 1094.
ὦ Θέμις, ὦ Γῆ
inserui.
φάος:
φῶς
G. Mosc. 2.
ἐςορᾷς:
ἐσορῶ
M. G. Vit. Lips. et ceteri, ut videtur, codd. et Ald. Rob.
εἰλίσσων
Turn. ἔκδικα:
ἄδικα
G. Vit. Lips. aliique nonnulli. In fine Cantabr. 1. 2. signum interrogandi habent, quod Turnebus quoque commemoravit. Posuit hoc signum Scholefieldius, recte, mea sententia, quod sic fortior est et vehementior de iniuria conquerentis oratio.

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907-943. First Scene of the Exodos. Prometheus and the Cory- phaeus. Preparation of the catas- trophe.

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907. ἡ μὴν ἔτι: cp. 167. – αὐθάδης φρενών: genitive of relation. Krüger I. § 47, 26, 9; II. § 47, 26, 7.

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908. οἷον : = ὅτι τοιοῦτον. Cp. Od. ii. 239 νῦν δ᾽ ἄλλῳ δήμῳ νεμεσίζομαι,
οἷον ἅπαντες ἦσθ᾽ ἄνεῳ, Il. xxii. 346 αἱ γάρ πως αὐτόν με μένος καὶ θυμὸς ἀνείη ὤμ᾿ ἀποταμνόμενον κρέα ἔδμεναι, οἷά μ᾽ ἔοργας, Eur. H. F. 816 ἆρ᾽ εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν πίτυλον ἥκομεν φόβου, οἷον φάσμ᾽ ὑπὲρ δόμων ὁρῶ; Ion 796 ἀν' ὑγρὸν ἀμπταίην αἰθέρα . . ., οἷον οἷον ἄλγος ἔπαθον, Ar. Nub. 1157 οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν με φλαῦρον ἐργάσαισθ᾽ ἔτι, οἷος ἐμοὶ τρέφεται, Hdt. i. 31 αἱ δὲ ᾿Αργεῖαι τὴν μητέρα αὐτῶν (ἐμακάριζον), οἵων τέκνων ἐκύρησε, viii. 12 ἐς φόβον κατι- στέατο ἐλπίζοντες πάγχυ ἀπολέεσθαι, ἐς οἷα κακὰ ἧκον.

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910. ἄιστον ἐκβαλεῖ: ἱ.ε. ἐκβαλεῖ ὥστε ἄιστον εἶναι. For ἄιστος see on 151.

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911. Κρόνου ... κρανθήσεται : al- literation of κρ-.

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915 f. ταῦτα: see on 992. πεδαρσίοις : see on 269.

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917. πύρπνουν βέλος: see on 359. For the contracted form πύρπνουν see on 852, and Soph. Ant. 224 δύσπνους ἱκάνω. In melic passages only -πνοος is used.

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920. τοῖον: demonstratives at the beginning of a sentence often state the cause or reason of what goes before, in Greek as in Latin. Cp. Soph. Ai. 560 οὔτοι σ' ᾿Ἀχαιῶν, οἶδα, μή τις ὑβρίσῃ . . . τοῖον πυλωρὸν φύλακα Τεῦκρον ἀμφί σοι λείψω.

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921. ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸς αὐτῳ: see on 762.

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922. κεραυνού : κεραυνός, ignea coruscatio; βροντή, fragor caeli tonantis.

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923. βροντῆς ὑπερβάλλοντα: ὑπερ- βάλλειν takes the genitive, as a verb of surpassing, here and Plat. Gorg. 475 ο ἆρα λύπῃ ὑπερβάλλει τὸ ἀδικεῖν τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι; also Aristot. Hist. An. ii. 11 πολὺ ὑπερβάλλοντες τῶν περὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ὑπαρχόντων. Cp. the use of ὑπερφέρειν (Soph. O. T. 380 τέχνη τέχνης ὑπερφέρουσα) and ὑπερέχειν
(Plat. Gorg. 475 ο οὐκ ἄρα λύπῃ γε ὑπερέχει, following the words quoted above).

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924 f. θαλασσίαν τρίαιναν : cp. Eur. Ιοη 282 πληγαὶ τριαίνης ποντίου. νόσον: 'ubi Latinis pestis, noxa aut calamitas, ibi Graecis νόσος in usu est' (Schütz). Cp. Soph. Ant. 418 καὶ τότ᾽ ἐξαίφνης χθονός τυφὼς ἀείρας σκηπτόν, οὐράνιον ἄχος, πίμπλησι πε- δίον· . . . μύσαντες δ᾽ εἴχομεν θείαν νό- σον. - According to Pindar Isthm. vii. 60 ff., the sagacious Themis, when Zeus and Poseidon sought the hand of Thetis, announced to the gods, εἵνεκεν πεπρωμένον ἦν φέρτερον γόνον ἂν ἄνακτα πατρὸς τεκεῖν ποντίαν θεόν, ὃς κεραυνοῦ τε κρέσσον ἄλλο βέλος διώ- ξει χερὶ τριόδοντός τ᾽ ἀμαιμακέτου, Δί γε μισγομέναν ἢ Διὸς παρ᾿ ἀδελφεοῖσιν. Aeschylus, for the sake of effect, has retained the part of the prophecy re- lating to Poseidon, although its occa- sion - the competition of Poseidon for Thetis's hand - is absent from his account. One may understand him to mean that Poseidon's domin- ion would perish along with Zeus's.

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926. πταίσας τῷδε πρὸς κακῷ: cp. Sept. 210 νεὼς καμούσης ποντίῳ πρὸς κύματι. ...

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927. For τὲ καί with a word meaning 'differ' or 'different,' cp. Soph. Ο. C. 808 χωρὶς τό τ᾽ εἰπεῖν πολλὰ καὶ τὰ καίρια, Eur. Alc. 528 χωρὶς τό τ᾽ εἶναι καὶ τὸ μὴ νομίζεται, Xen. Hier. i. 2 πῇ διαφέρει ὁ τυραννικός τε καὶ ὁ ἰδιω- τικὸς βίος. See Elmsley on Soph. l.c.

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928. θήν: this particle is chiefly epic. Krüg. II. § 69, 38. — ἐπιγλωσσᾷ: prophesy ill, utter ominous words; ἐποι- ωνίζῃ κατὰ τοῦ Διὸς & βούλει γενέσθαι αὐτῷ, Schol. So Hesych. ἐπιγλωσσῶ· ἐποιωνίζου διὰ γλώττης, Αἰσχύλος Ἡρα- κλείδαις. Cp. Cho. 1044 μηδ' ἐπιζευχ- θῇς στόμα φήμῃ πονηρᾷ μηδ᾽ ἐπιγλωσσῶ κακά, Ar. Lys. 37 περὶ τῶν ᾿Αθηνῶν δ᾽ οὐκ ἐπιγλωττήσομαι τοιοῦτον οὐδέν.

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929. τελεῖται: may be either fu- ture or present (see on 211). – πρὸς δέ: see on 73.

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931. τῶνδε : τῶν ἐμῶν. -

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932. ἐκρίπτων: see on 312.

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933. ᾧ θανεῖν οὐ μόρσιμον: the thought recurs 1053; in a different relation 753 and Frg. III. of the Προ- μηθεὺς λυόμενος 23 f.

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934. Ср. 313.

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936. οἱ προσκυνοῦντες τὴν ᾿Αδρά- στειαν : Hesych. ᾿Αδραστία· ἡ Νέμεσις. 'Ad vitandam invidiam Graeci sole- bant dicere προσκυνῶ τὴν Νέμεσιν. Dem. adv. Aristogit. I. p. 495 [xxv. 37] καὶ ᾿Αδράστειαν μὲν ἄνθρωπος ὢν ἔγωγε προσκυνῶ, Plat. Rep. v. 451 & προσ- κυνῶ δὲ ᾿Αδράστειαν, ὦ Γλαύκων, χάριν οὗ μέλλω λέγειν' (Giacomelli). Cp. also Eur. Rhes. 342 ᾿Αδράστεια μὲν ὁ Διὸς παῖς εἴργοι στομάτων φθόνον, 468 σὺν δ᾽ ᾿Αδραστείᾳ λέγω, ξὺν σοὶ στρατεύειν γῆν ἐπ᾿ ᾿Αργείων θέλω καὶ πᾶσαν ἐλθὼν Ἑλλάδ᾽ ἐκπέρσαι δορί, Alciphr. Ep. i. 33 προσκυνῶ δὲ τὴν Νέμεσιν, Soph. Phil. 776 τὸν φθόνον δὲ πρόσκυσον. ...

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937. σέβου, προσεύχου, θώπτε: cp. 392. – τὸν κρατοῦντ᾽ ἀεί : = τὸν ἀεὶ (for the time being) κρατοῦντα. Cp. Eur. Οr. 889 ὑπὸ τοῖς δυναμένοισιν ὢν ἀεί, Αr. Vesp. 1318 κωμῳδολοιχῶν περὶ τὸν εὖ πράττοντ᾽ ἀεί, Plut. 1026 φάσκων βοηθεῖν τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις ἀεί, Χen. Cyr. viii. 5. 16.

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938. ἔλασσον ἢ μηδέν: cp. Plat. Theaet. 179 e ἧττον αὐτοῖς ἔνι ἢ τὸ μη- δέν. The abstract idea of nothingness is expressed by μηδέν (not οὐδέν) or τὸ μηδέν. Cp. Soph. Αi. 1275 ἤδη τὸ μηδὲν ὄντας, Εl. 1166 δέξαι με τὴν μηδὲν εἰς τὸ μηδέν, Eur. Cycl. 355 ἄλλως νομίζει Ζεὺς τὸ μηδὲν ὢν θεός, Soph. Ai. 1231 ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ὢν τοῦ μηδὲν ἀντέστης ὕπερ.

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939. δράτω, κρατείτω: cp. Ag. 1669 πρᾶσσε, πιαίνου μιαίνων τὴν δίκην, ἐπεὶ πάρα, Soph. Ant. 768 δράτω, φρο- νείτω μεῖζον ἢ κατ᾿ ἄνδρ᾿ ἰών.

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941. ἀλλ᾽ εἰσορῶ γάρ : cp. Eur. Hec. 724 ἀλλ᾽ εἰσορῶ γὰρ τοῦδε δεσπότου δέ- μας ᾿Αγαμέμνονος, τοὐνθένδε σιγῶμεν, φίλαι. - τρόχιν: Hesych., τρόχις· ἄγ- γελος, ἀκόλουθος. Here, however, a contemptuous designation of the di- vine messenger, as διάκονος τοῦ νέου τυράννου. So throughout the following scene Hermes is treated with lofty disdain by Prometheus. The phrase Διὸς τρόχις suffices for the spectators, without mention of the name. τρό- χις furthermore alludes to Hermes's winged shoes, and it is probable that he is swung from above upon the stage, by means of the αἰώρημα (see on 284).

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949. μηδὲν αἰνικτηρίως : cp. 610.

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950. αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστα: everything as it really is, = explicitly." Cp. Eur. Phoen. 494 ταῦτ᾽ αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστα, μῆτερ, οὐχὶ περιπλοκὰς λόγων ἀθροίσας, εἶπον, Οr. 1393 σαφῶς λέγ᾽ ἡμῖν αὔθ᾽ ἕκαστα τὰν δόμοις.

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954. Cp. Eur. Tro. 424 ἡ δεινὸς ὁ λάτρις· τί ποτ᾽ ἔχουσι τοὔνομα κήρυκες; ἓν ἀπέχθημα πάγκοινον βροτοῖς οἱ περὶ τυράννους καὶ πόλεις ὑπηρέται.

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962. ἐγκόνει πάλιν: a contemptu- ous expression (cp. τρόχις) for simple ἀναστρέφου.

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963. Cp. Soph. Ο. C. 991 ἓν γάρ μ' ἄμειψαι μοῦνον ὧν σ᾽ ἀνιστορῶ. The attraction οὐδὲν ὧν, very common in Soph. and Eur., occurs in Aeschylus only here and 984 below.

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965. καθώρμισας: cp. Eur. H. F. 1094 δεσμοῖς ναῦς ὅπως ὡρμισμένος πρὸς ἡμιθραύστῳ λαΐνῳ τυκίσματι ἡμαι, Ar. Thesm. 1105 τίν᾽ ὄχθον τόνδ᾽ ὁρῶ καὶ παρθένον θεαῖς ὁμοίαν ναῦν ὅπως ὡρ- μισμένην; The metaphor is further carried out in Frg. III. of Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος, 3 navem ut horri- sono freto noctem paventes timidi adnectunt navitae.

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968 f. οἶμαι: ironical. – τῇδε λα- -
τρεύειν πέτρα: see on 463. The ex- pression is here chosen with reference to the next verse (φῦναι Ζηνὶ ἄγγελον). · πέτρα η πατρί: the assonance em- phasizes the contrast.

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970. This verse was preceded by some telling retort to Hermes's taunt λατρεύειν πέτρα.

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972. Cp. 864, Soph. Trach. 819 τὴν δὲ τέρψιν ἣν τὠμῷ δίδωσι πατρί, τήνδ᾽ αὐτὴ λάβοι, Ρhil. 794 ᾿Αγάμεμνον, ὦ Μενέλαε, πῶς ἂν ἀντ᾿ ἐμοῦ τὸν ἴσον χρόνον τρέφοιτε τήνδε τὴν νόσον ;

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973. καὶ ... δέ: and too. H. 1042 end; Krüger II. § 69, 41, 2. Ср. Eur. Εl. 1117 τρόποι τοιοῦτοι· καὶ σὺ δ᾽ αὐθάδης ἔφυς.

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974. συμφοραῖς: ob calamita- tes tuas. For this use of the causal dative, cp. Cho. 81 δακρύω ματαί- οισι δεσπόταν τύχαις, Εum. 717 ἢ καὶ πατήρ τι σφάλλεται βουλευμάτων πρω- τοκτόνοισι προστροπαῖς Ιξίονος; Eur. Med. 1286 πίτνει δ᾽ ἁ τάλαιν᾽ ἐς ἅλμαν φόνῳ τέκνων δυσσεβεῖ, Heracl. 474 θρά- σος μοι μηδὲν ἐξόδοις ἐμαῖς προσθῆτε.

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975. ἁπλῷ λόγῳ: cp. 46. In Ar. Αν. 1547 Prometheus expresses the same sentiment, μισῶ δ᾽ ἅπαντας τοὺς θεούς, ὡς οἶσθα σύ.

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977. The dialogue becomes sticho- mythic as the heat of the speakers increases. - κλύω : the sense is, "from your speech I perceive that, etc." - μεμηνότα νόσον: like μεμηνότα μανίαν. Krüger II. § 46, 6.

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979. Cp. Frg. 294 κακοὶ γὰρ εὖ πράσσοντες οὐκ ἀνασχετοί.

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980. ὤμοι, τόδε τοὔπος : = " this word ὤμοι." Cp. Pers. 124 ὀᾶ, τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος γυναικοπληθὴς ὅμιλος ἀπύων, Αg. 1334 ' μηκέτ᾽ ἐσέλθῃς᾽ τάδε φωνῶν, Εum. 510 τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος θροούμενος, ἰὼ δίκα. Hermes means that Zeus is not moved by lamentations (cp. 952), but Pro- metheus, in the next verse, takes the statement in a different sense: κἀκεῖ- νος οὖν τῷ χρόνῳ μαθήσεται τὸ στενά- ζειν, Schol.

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982. καὶ μήν: see on 246. - οὔπω : said with reference to the preceding sentiment (ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ᾽ ὁ χρόνος).

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983. ὄνθ ὑπηρέτην: cp. 942, 954.

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985. ὀφείλων γε : = εἰ ὤφειλόν γε. 'Ich dich ehren? Wofür?' says Goethe's Prometheus. For the opta- tive with av after εἰ ὤφειλον cp. Isocr. Paneg. 102 εἰ μὲν ἄλλοι τινὲς τῶν αὐτῶν πραγμάτων πραότερον ἐπεμελήθησαν, εἰ- κότως ἂν ἡμῖν ἐπιτιμῷεν. Krüger I. § 54, 12, 7; GMT. 443 b.

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986. δῆθεν : see on 202. – ὡς παῖδ᾽ ὄντα με: cp. Ag. 277 παιδὸς νέας ὡς κάρτ᾽ ἐμωμήσω φρένας, 479 τίς ὧδε παιδ-
νὸς ἢ φρενῶν κεκομμένος; Il. xx. 200 Πηλείδη, μὴ δή μ᾽ ἐπέεσσί γε νηπύτιον ὡς ἔλπεο δειδίξεσθαι.

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987. τοῦδε: i.e. παιδός. Cp. Soph. Ant. 910 καὶ παῖς ἀπ᾿ ἄλλου φωτός, εἰ τοῦδ᾽ ἤμπλακον, Eur. Hipp. 914 οὐ μὴν φίλους γε κάτι μᾶλλον ἢ φίλους κρύπτειν δίκαιον.

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992. πρὸς ταῦτα: often used with the imperative to express unalterable resolution or conviction. "I have spoken; do what you will," or "let what will happen." Cp. 915, 1030, 1043, Soph. Ant. 658, Eur. Med. 1358, Hipp. 304, Heracl. 978 etc. — αἰθα- λοῦσσα: cp. Hesiod Theog. 707, αἰ- θαλόεντα κεραυνόν, Eur. Phoen. 183 κεραυνῶν τε φῶς αἰθαλόεν. - For the thought cp. 1043, Il. xv. 115 μὴ νῦν μοι νεμεσήσετ᾽, Ὀλύμπια δώματ᾽ ἔχον- τες, τίσασθαι φόνον υἷος ἰόντ᾽ ἐπὶ νῆας ᾿Ἀχαιῶν, εἴπερ μοι καὶ μοῖρα Διὸς πλη- γέντι κεραυνῷ κεῖσθαι ὁμοῦ νεκύεσσι μεθ᾽ αἵματι καὶ κονίῃσιν, Soph. Phil. 1197 οὐδέποτ᾽ οὐδέποτ᾽, . . . οὐδ᾽ εἰ πυρ- φόρος ἀστεροπητὴς βροντᾶς αὐγαῖς μ᾿ εἶσι φλογίζων, Eur. Phoen. 521 πρὸς ταῦτ᾽ ἴτω μὲν πῦρ, ἴτω δὲ φάσγανα, ζεύγνυσθε δ᾽ ἵππους, πεδία πίμπλαθ᾽ ἁρμάτων, ὡς οὐ παρήσω τῷδ᾽ ἐμὴν τυραν- νίδα, Frg. 688 πίμπρη, κάταιθε σάρκας, ἐμπλήσθητί μου πίνων κελαινὸν αἷμα· πρόσθε γὰρ κάτω γῆς εἶσιν ἄστρα, γῆ δ᾽ ἄνεισ᾽ εἰς αἰθέρα, πρὶν ἐξ ἐμοῦ σοι θῶπ᾿ ἀπαντῆσαι λόγον.

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993. λευκοπτέρῳ: cp. Hdt. iv. 31 οἶκε γὰρ ἡ χιὼν πτεροῖσι, ibid. 7 ὑπὸ πτερῶν κεχυμένων.

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994. Cp. Ar. Pax 320 ὡς κυκάτω καὶ πατείτω πάντα καὶ ταραττέτω. — χθονίοις : see 1082 f. Cp. Frg. 55 τυ- πάνου δ᾽ εἰκὼν ὥσθ᾽ ὑπογαίου βροντῆς φέρεται βαρυταρβής, Soph. Ο. C. 1606 κτύπησε μὲν Ζεὺς χθόνιος, Eur. Hipp. 1201 ἔνθεν τις ἠχώ, χθόνιος ὡς βροντὴ Διός, βαρὺν βρόμον μεθῆκε. - κυκάτω : the subject is he (Zeus); so in 1051 below, after πνεῦμα and κῦμα.

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995. ὥστε καί: (= οὕτως ὥστε καί) implies that the result corresponds in nature with the action which causes it. Cp. Plat. Phaed. 66 b ἀνάγκη ἐκ πάντων τούτων παρίστασθαι δόξαν τοι άνδε τινὰ τοῖς γνησίως φιλοσόφοις ὥστε καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους τοιαῦτ᾽ ἄττα λέγειν, Soph. Αi. 1325 τί γάρ σ᾽ ἔδρασεν ὥστε καὶ βλάβην ἔχειν, Eur. Phoen. 1328 οὐκ εἰς τόδ᾽ ἦλθον ὥστε καὶ τάδ'
εἰδέναι, Hel. 841 πῶς οὖν θανούμεθ᾽ ὥστε καὶ δόξαν λαβεῖν; For the thought cp. Hor. Carm. iii. 3, 1 iustum et tenacem propositi virum, etc.

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998. Cp. Schiller Wallenstein's Tod IV. 11 Bedenken Sie doch ja wohl was Sie thun.' 'Bedacht ist schon, was zu bedenken ist.'

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999 f. τόλμησον, τόλμησον ὀρθῶς φρονεῖν : cp. Horace's sapere aude (Epist. i. 2, 40). For the repetition see on 266.

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1001. ὀχλεῖς : absolute, as in Soph. Ο. Τ. 446 παρὼν σύ γ᾽ ἐμποδὼν ὀχλεῖς. – κῦμ᾽ ὅπως : λαλῶν ὡς πρὸς κῦμα ἀναί- σθητον, Schol. Cp. Eur. Med. 28 ὡς δὲ πέτρος ἢ θαλάσσιος κλύδων ἀκούει νουθετουμένη φίλων, Hipp. 304 πρὸς τάδ᾽ αὐθαδεστέρα γίγνου θαλάσσης, Andr. 537 τί με προσπίτνεις ἁλίαν πέ- τραν ἢ κῦμα λιταῖς ὡς ἱκετεύων, Lyco- phr. 1452 εἰς κῦμα κωφὸν βάζω, Philo- dem. Anthol. Pal. v. 107 τοῦτ᾽ ἐβόων αἰεὶ καὶ προύλεγον, ἀλλ᾽ ἴσα πόντῳ Ἰονίῳ μύθων ἔκλυες ἡμετέρων, Ovid. Met. xiii. 804 surdior aequoribus.

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1005. γυναικομίμοις : cp. Soph. Frg. 706 γυναικομίμοις ἐμπρέπεις ἐσθήμασιν, Eur. Bacch. 980 ἐν γυναικομίμῳ στολᾷ, Frg. 185 γυναικομίμῳ διαπρέπεις μορφώ- ματι. · ὑπτιάσμασιν: in entreaty the ancients raised the hands with palms upwards. Cp. the quotation (s.v. ὕπτιος) in Suidas προθυμίᾳ τῇ πάσῃ ἀναπετάσαντες τὰς πύλας ἐδέξαντο ὑπτί- αις χερσὶ τοὺς πολεμίους, Verg. Aen. iii. 176 tendoque supinas ad caelum cum voce manus, Hor. Carm. iii. 23, 1 caelo supinas si tuleris manus. This attitude is seen in the fine statue of the 'praying boy' in the Berlin Museum (Bau- meister, Denkmäler, p. 591, n. 635).

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1006. τοῦ παντὸς δέω : cp. 961.

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1007. πολλὰ καὶ μάτην: cp. Eum. 144 ἢ πολλὰ δὴ παθοῦσα καὶ μάτην ἐγώ.

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1010. βιάζει : = βίᾳ φέρεις. Cp. Eur. Hipp. 1223 αἳ δ᾽ ἐνδακοῦσαι στόμια πυρι- γενῆ γναθμοῖς βίᾳ φέρουσιν, οὔτι ναυ- κλήρου χερὸς μεταστρέφουσαι, Med. 242 μὴ βίᾳ φέρων ζυγόν, Soph. El. 725.

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1011. σφοδρύνει, ἀσθενεῖ : outward turbulence, but inner powerlessness.

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1013. αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτήν: that is, χωρὶς τοῦ καλῶς φρονεῖν. — οὐδενὸς μεῖ- ζον σθένει : ‘nulla re est validior, i.e. quavis re est infirmior' (Halm). Ex- planation and confirmation of the foregoing ἀσθενεῖ. Cp. Theogn. 411 οὐδενὸς ἀνθρώπων κακίων δοκεῖ εἶναι ἑταῖρος, ᾧ γνώμη θ᾽ ἕπεται, Κύρνε, καὶ ᾧ δύναμις, Thuc. vii. 71 οὐδεμιᾶς δὴ τῶν ξυμπασῶν ἐλάσσων ἔκπληξις, 85 πλεῖ- στος γὰρ δὴ φόνος οὗτος καὶ οὐδενὸς ἐλάσσων τῶν ἐν τῷ Σικελικῷ πολέμῳ τούτῳ, Dem. 1. 27 ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων αἰσχύνη, οὐδεμιᾶς ἐλάττων ζημίας τοῖς γε σώφροσι, Plat. Prot. 335 a εἰ τοῦτο ἐποίουν, οὐδενὸς ἂν βελτίων ἐφαινόμην, Eur. Andr. 726 τἄλλ᾽ ὄντες ἴστε μηδε- νὸς βελτίονες. - For the thought cp. Soph. O. T. 549 εἴ τοι νομίζεις κτῆμα τὴν αὐθαδίαν εἶναί τι τοῦ νοῦ χωρίς, οὐκ ὀρθῶς φρονεῖς.

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1014. σκέψαι δέ: the same formula introduces an argument Soph. O. T. 584 σκέψαι δὲ τοῦτο πρῶτον, Eur. Suppl. 476 σκέψαι δὲ καὶ μὴ τοῖς ἐμοῖς θυμούμενος λόγοισιν ... σφριγῶντ᾽ ἀμεί- ψῃ μύθον. Cp. Soph. Trach. 1077 σκέ- ψαι θ' ὁποίας ταῦτα συμφορᾶς ὕπο πέ πονθα.

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1015. χειμών : cp. 643. For the po- sition of κακῶν see on 458. – τρικυμία : cp. the Latin decima unda, de- cumanus fluctus, Sept. 760 κα- κῶν δ᾽ ὥσπερ θάλασσα κῦμ᾽ ἄγει, τὸ μὲν πίτνον, ἄλλο δ᾽ ἀείρει τρίχαλον, Eur. Hipp. 1213 σὺν κλύδωνι καὶ τρικυμίᾳ, Plat. Rep. 472 α τὼ δύω κύματε ἐκ- φυγόντι τὸ μέγιστον καὶ χαλεπώτατον τῆς τρικυμίας ἐπάγεις.

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1016. ἔπεισ': elision of in the verb-ending -σι is rare. - πρῶτα μέν : answered by simple δέ 1020. Ср. 447. - ὀκρίδα: cp. ὀκριοέσσῃ, 281.

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1019. πετραία ἀγκάλη: cp. Cho. 586 πόντιαι ἀγκάλαι, Ar. Ran. 704 τὴν πόλιν ἔχοντες κυμάτων ἐν ἀγκάλαις, in imitation of Archilochus's verse ψυ- χὰς ἔχοντες κυμάτων ἐν ἀγκάλαις. πετραία... βαστάσει: states what is properly only a circumstance (= ev πετραίᾳ ἀγκάλῃ βασταζόμενον). Pro- metheus is to sink, fetters and all, into the bowels of the earth, encir- cled by the cliff to which he is bound. By this device the poet avoids, at the opening of the Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος, the uninteresting repetition of the bind- ing of Prometheus.

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1020. μακρὸν μήκος : cp. Eur. Or. 72 μακρὸν δὴ μήκος χρόνου. μήκος = spatium, stretch.

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1021. τοί: confirmative, mark well.

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1022. κύων: see on 803.

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1023. διαρταμήσει ... μέγα ῥάκος: cp. below, Frg. III. of Προμηθεὺς λυό- μενος 10 iam tertio me quoque funesto die tristi advolatu aduncis lacerans unguibus Iovis satelles pastu dilaniat fero. - μέγα ῥάκος: gives the result of διαρταμήσει, tear into great shreds, So κελαινόβρωτον below. Observe μέγα before §. § is the only liquid which maintains in post-Homeric poetry both the internal doubling (-pp-) and the force of two conso- nants at the beginning of a word (the after-effect of a dropped initial consonant; ῥάκος = Fράκος, Aeol. βρά- κος). The preceding vowel may also (in the thesis) be short; see 713, 992.

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1024. πανήμερος: not daily (for according to the passage just quoted on 1023, the eagle comes tertio quoque die), but διὰ πάσης τῆς ἡμέρας. Cp. the use of πανῆμαρ, πανη- μέριος in Homer. So Hesiod Theog. 523 καὶ οἱ ἐπ᾿ αἰετὸν ὧρσε τανύπτε- ρον· αὐτὰρ ὅγ᾽ ἦπαρ ἤσθιεν ἀθάνατον· τὸ δ᾽ ἀέξετο ἶσον ἁπάντῃ νυκτὸς, ὅσον πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἔδοι τανυσίπτερος ὄρνις.

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1025. κελαινόβρωτον: τὸ μελαινό- μενον ἐκ τῆς βρώσεως, Schol. Prolep- tic. – ἐκθοινάσεται: see on 61.

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1027. θεῶν τις διάδοχος κτἑ.: this is really fulfilled, for Heracles offers to Zeus the centaur Chiron (θεὸν Χείρωνα, Soph. Trach. 714) as a vol- untary (θελήση) substitute for Pro-
metheus. See Introd. p. 12. Here, indeed, Hermes announces the contin- gency as one inconceivable, or hardly to be expected. See on 27.

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1029. ἀμφί: see on 830, and cp. Hom. Hymn ii. 157 Τιτῆνές τε θεοὶ τοὶ ὑπὸ χθονὶ ναιετάοντες Τάρταρον ἀμφὶ μέγαν (somewhere in Tartarus), Eur. Andr. 215 εἰ δ᾽ ἀμφὶ Θρήκην ... τύ- ραννον ἔσχες ἄνδρα (in some part of Thrace). The conception is that of an unknown point inside a given re- gion. This suggests the idea of look- ing "round about" that region.

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1030 f. πεπλασμένος ὁ κόμπος ... ὀρθούμενος : cp. Hdt. vii. 103 οὕτω μὲν ὀρθοῖτ᾽ ἂν ὁ λόγος... εἰ δὲ ... ὅρα μὴ μάτην κόμπος ὁ λόγος οὗτος εἰρημένος ἢ, Thuc. ii. 41 ὡς οὐ λόγων ἐν τῷ πα- ρόντι κόμπος τάδε μᾶλλον ἢ ἔργων ἐστὶν ἀλήθεια, αὐτὴ ἡ δύναμις τῆς πόλεως ση- μαίνει, Soph. Ο. Τ. 828 ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἀπ᾿ ὠμοῦ ταῦτα δαίμονός τις ἂν κρίνων ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρὶ τῷδ᾽ ἂν ὀρθοίη λόγον; Αί. 354 οἴμ᾽, ὡς ἔοικας ὀρθὰ μαρτυρεῖν ἄγαν. – καὶ λίαν : this frequent combination occurs even in Homer. Od. i. 46 καὶ λίην κεῖνός γε ἐοικότι κεῖται ὀλέθρῳ, also xiii. 393, xv. 155.

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1032. ψευδηγορεῖν: Zeus says, Il. i. 526, οὐ γὰρ ἐμὸν παλινάγρετον οὐδ᾽ ἀπατηλὸν οὐδ᾽ ἀτελεύτητον ὅ τι κεν κε- φαλῇ κατανεύσω.

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1035. ἄμεινον: for the neuter cp. Suppl. 190 κρεῖσσον δὲ πύργου βωμός. G. 138, м. 2 c; Η. 617. - ἡγήσῃ ποτέ: be at length convinced (cp. ποτέ in 999). The negation belongs properly only to αὐθαδίαν εὐβουλίας ἄμεινονv, although μηδέ has influenced the mood of ἡγήσῃ (for ἥγησαι). – For the form of ex- pression, cp. Eur. Cycl. 310 τὸ δ᾽ εὐσε- βὲς τῆς δυσσεβείας ἀνθελοῦ.

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1037. The leader of the chorus reiterates the foregoing sentiment. See on 472.

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1040-1093. The catastrophe. Five anapaestic systems, of which the pair spoken by Prometheus (14 = 14) and the pair spoken by Her- mes (99) correspond in length, while the system of the Coryphaeus forms the mesode.

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1040. εἰδότι μοι: see on 441.

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1042. ἀεικές: refers to the re- proach in 1039 (αἰσχρόν).

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1043. Ср. 992, Eur. Frg. 910 πρὸς ταῦθ᾽ ὅ τι χρὴ καὶ παλαμάσθω καὶ πᾶν ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω· τὸ γὰρ εὖ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ καὶ τὸ δίκαιον σύμμαχον ἔσται κοὐ μή ποθ᾽ ἁλῶ κακὰ πράσσων.

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1044. πυρὸς ἀμφήκης βόστρυχος: ἡ ἑλικοειδὴς (cp. 1083) τοῦ πυρὸς κατα- φορά, Schol. Cp. Cleanth. Hymn to Zeus 10 ἀμφήκη πυρόεντα ἀεὶ ζώοντα κεραυνόν, Eur. Hipp. 559 βροντᾷ ἀμφι- πύρῳ, Hesych. ἄμφηκες δὲ, ἐξ ἑκατέρου μέρους ἠκονημένον βέλος, ἢ κεραυνὸς ἢ ξίφος. Cp. also Ag. 306 φλογὸς μέγαν πώγωνα, Catull. lxi. 77 viden ut faces splendidas quatiunt comas. ἀμφήκης is an Homeric word.

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1045. σφακέλῳ: σπασμῷ, συντόνῳ κινήσει, Schol. Cp. 878.

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1047. αὐταῖς ῥίζαις: cp. 221 and note.

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1049. συγχώσειεν : συγκαλύψειεν, Schol.

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1051. ῥίψειε : the subject is he (Zeus); so also of θανατώσει below. See on 994.

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1052. Cp. Eur. Hec. 1295 στερρὰ γὰρ ἀνάγκη.

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1053. πάντως οὐ: as in 333. For the thought cp. 933.

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1056 f. τί ἐλλείπει μὴ οὐ παρα- παίειν : what lacks it of wild delusion? ἐλλείπειν contains a negative notion. Cp. 627, Eur. Iph. Α. 41 τῶν ἀπόρων οὐδενὸς ἐνδεῖς μὴ οὐ μαίνεσθαι, Τro. 797 τίνος ἐνδέομεν μὴ οὐ πανσυδίᾳ χωρεῖν ὀλέθρου διὰ παντός, Soph. Ο. Τ. 1232 λείπει μὲν οὐδ᾽ ἃ πρόσθεν ᾔδεμεν τὸ μὴ οὐ βαρύστον᾽ εἶναι. GMT. 815, 2; G. 283, 7 Ν.; H. 1034 b. - For παρα- παίειν cp. 581, and Frg. 320 εἴτ' οὖν σοφιστὴς κᾶλα παραπαίων χέλυν, Ar. Plut. 508 ξυνθιασώτα τοῦ ληρεῖν καὶ παραπαίειν. – εὐχή: the passage 1043- 1052 is meant.

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1059. συγκάμνουσαι: cp. 414.

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1062. ἀτέραμνον: cp. 190.

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1065. παρέσυρας : the proper mean- ing of παρασύρω may be seen from the figure in Ar. Εq. 526 Κρατίνου μεμνη- μένος ὃς πολλῷ ῥεύσας ποτ᾽ ἐπαίνῳ διὰ τῶν ἀφελῶν πεδίων ἔρρει καὶ τῆς στά- σεως παρασύρων ἐφόρει τὰς δρῦς καὶ τὰς πλατάνους καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς προθελύμ- νους. The expression παρασύρειν ἔπος is therefore like αἰάζειν αὐδήν. The verb imparts to ἔπος a strong notion of reproach, "utter an outrageous speech."

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1069 f. Cp. 685. – ἀπέπτυσα: on this use of the aorist see Krüger II. § 53, 6, 2; GMT. 60; H. 842.

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1078 f. δίκτυον ἄτης: cp. Ag. 361 γάγγαμον ἄτης παναλώτου. ἀπέραν- τον: impervious. Cp. Ag. 1382 ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον ὥσπερ ἰχθύων περιστι- χίζω, Εum. 634 ἐν ἀτέρμονι δαιδάλῳ πέπλῳ. – At 1079 Hermes soars aloft and disappears.

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1080. ἔργῳ κοὐκέτι μύθῳ: cр. 336. Stage thunder and lightning the ancients produced by a thunder- machine (βροντεῖον) and a lightning- tower (κεραυνοσκοπεῖον). Skins filled with heavy stones were rolled on copper plates behind the scene, and a revolving contrivance aloft (περίακτος ὑψηλή) emitted flashes of light. The quaking of the earth may have been indicated by the turning of the two περίακτοι. The ancients in such things demanded only hints and sym- bols, not illusions.

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1081. The monometer (see on 97) takes the place of a dimeter; see on 1040.

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1082. βρυχία : Hesych. βρύχιος · ὑποβρύχιος, i.e. under the surface. Cp. Pers. 397 ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον. ‘Vo- cabulum βρύχιος eo hic significatu dictum est, quo etiam ὑποβρύχιος in- terdum non id quod in aqua demer- sum est, sed omnino quod est aliqua re obrutum denotat' (Hermann). Ac- cordingly βρυχία ἠχὼ βροντῆς means the same as χθόνια βροντήματα, 994. With the description cp. Hesiod Theog. 705 τόσσος δοῦπος ἔγεντο θεῶν ἔριδι ξυνιόντων· σὺν δ᾽ ἄνεμοί τ᾽ ἔνοσίς τε κονίην ἐσφαράγιζον.

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1083 f. ἕλικες: αἱ ἑλικοειδεῖς (zig- zag) κατὰ τὰ νέφη τῶν ἀστραπῶν κινή- σεις, Schol. Cp. 1044. – ζάπυροι: cp. ζαπληθῆ Pers. 316. – στρόμβοι: He- sych. στρόμβος· δίνος, συστροφὴ ἀνέ- -
μου. – κόνῖν : for the quantity, cp. Suppl. 180 ὁρῶ κόνῖν ἄναυδον, Cho. 928 τόνδ᾽ ὄφῖν ἐθρεψάνην, Suppl. 782 κόνις ἄτερθε, Cho. 544 οὕφῖς ἐμοῖσι.

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1087. ἀντίπνουν: as a rule, only the mediae (β, γ, δ) before λ, μ, ν make position in thesis in dramatic poetry. Lengthenings like this in anapaests are found Ar. Av. 216 ἕδρας, 579 ἆγρῶν. – For the contraction see on 917.

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1090. φανερώς: belongs with Διό- θεν, evidently from Zeus and none other. τεύχουσα φόβον stands in a causal re- lation to it.

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1091. ὦ μητρὸς ἐμῆς: ὦ Γἢ ἡ ὦ Θέμις (read & Γῆ Θέμι, see on 210), Schol. In huiusmodi obtestatione eos appellari deos convenit, quorum vis et potestas universam rerum na- turam complectitur, i.e. caelum et terram, quo quidquid usquam testari insigne facinus possit, uno complexu comprehendatur' (Hermann). Cp. Soph. Εl. 86 & φάος ἁγνὸν καὶ γῆς ἰσό- μοιρ᾿ ἀήρ. – σέβας: cp. Eum. 885 ἀλλ᾿ εἰ μὲν ἁγνόν ἐστί σοι Πειθοῦς σέβας.

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1092. φάος εἱλίσσων : cp. Eur. Phoen. 3 "Ήλιε, θοαῖς ἵπποισιν εἱλίσ- σων φλόγα, Theodect. Frg. 10 (р. 805 Nauck) & καλλιφεγγῆ λαμπάδ᾽ εἰλίσ- σων φλογός, Ηλιε. Here φάος is the proper light of the φαεννὸς αἰθήρ.

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1093. Prometheus sinks into the depths, with the rock on which he hangs (1019).